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PD Dr. med. habil. Dr. rer. nat. Silke Meyer-Zimmermann

Curriculum Vitae

​Studies

10/2010 - 12/2016

Medical student
Medical Faculty, Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg

2016

Medical license

 

Postgraduate training

04/2026

Clinical Chemist exam and degree

01/2026

Habilitation

11/2023


PhD thesis (Dr. rer. nat.) – Magna cum laude, Institute for Laboratory Medicine, Clinical Chemistry, and Molecular Diagnostics

01/2023

Specialization exam in laboratory medicine (“Facharzt")

02/2022


Medical thesis (Dr. med.), Institute for Laboratory Medicine, Clinical Chemistry, and Molecular Diagnostics, Leipzig University

03/21 -
spring 2023
Enrollment in the MD/PhD Program, University Leipzig

01/2019 -
12/2019

Full-time research, part of the RTG 2408 (“research training group" of the DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft); fully funded; http://grk2408.ovgu.de/)

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Work experience

01/2023 -
now



Senior specialist laboratory medicine (Oberärztin), University Hospital Leipzig, Institute for Laboratory Medicine, Clinical Chemistry, and Molecular Diagnostics, head: Professor Dr. med. Berend Isermann

01/2022 -
12/2022



(residency, internal medicine)
University Hospital Leipzig, Medical Clinic III, Department of Endocrinology and Nephrology, head: Prof. Dr. Michael Stumvoll

Clinical rotation in internal medicine

08/2019 -
12/2021



Assistant doctor, residency University Hospital Leipzig, University Hospital Leipzig, Institute for Laboratory Medicine, Clinical Chemistry, and Molecular Diagnostics, head: Professor Dr. med. Berend Isermann

01/2019 -
12/2019


Full-time research, part of the RTG 2408 (“research training group" of the DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft); fully funded; http://grk2408.ovgu.de/)

01/2017 -
07/2019


Assistant doctor, residency (laboratory medicine), Institute of Clinical Chemistry and Pathobiochemistry, University Hospital Magdeburg


Scientific activities

Reviewer responsibilities for:​

    • Frontiers in Immunology
    • Frontiers in Neurology
    • Journal of Cachexia, Sarcopenia and Muscle (JCSM)
    • Academic Radiology
    • Journal of Pharmaceutical Research International
    • Journal of the American Society of Nephrology (JASN)

Member of the German Society for Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine (DGKL; Deutsche Gesellschaft für Klinische Chemie und Laboratoriumsmedizin) and member of sub-section “Junges Labor"

Member of the Federation of European Neuroscience Societies (FENS)

Member of the German Society for cerebral spinal fluid diagnostics and clinical neurochemistry (DGLN)

Member of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD)


Achievements

  • 1st prize short presentation award at the DGKL conference 2019 in Magdeburg for the project “The p21-mediated and senescence driven hyperglycemic memory in diabetic nephropathy is therapeutically amendable"
  • 1st prize poster presentation at the university of Leipzig (university congress 2019)
  • Poster presentations and free oral talk at the DGKL conference 2018, 2019, 2022, 2023
  • Poster presentation at the FENS conference 2018
  • Early Career Award for the amount of $500 USD, ISTH 2024 (32nd Congress of the International Society on Thrombosis and Haemostasis in Bangkok, Thailand)
  • DGKL award Ivar-Trautschold Nachwuchsförderpreis 2025; 10,000 €
  • Listed as 2nd candidate for W2 professorship in the Institute of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany (official letter 03/2025)
  • Offer of McGill University, Montréal, Canada for a faculty member (assistant professor with tenure track) 12/2024, declined

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Grants

  1. ​SPMD („Stiftung für Pathobiochemie und Molekulare Miagnostik“) project 961 000-189, 1 PhD student (funding for 3 years, 2018-2021)
  2. “Nachwuchsförderung" der Universität Leipzig for 18 month, total sum 60,000 €
  3. Advanced Clinician Scientist Funding (ACS0002) der DGKL, 3 years (2026-2029), total sum 398,900 €

 

 


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