Affiliation: University Hospital Tuebingen

Dr. Anne-Katrin Rohlfing is a Postdoc at the Department of Cardiology and Angiology at the University Hospital Tuebingen (Germany). Dr. Rohlfing studied biology at the University of Greifswald and gained a PhD in Cell biology. She did her postdoctoral training at the Perelman School of Medicine, (University of Pennsylvania, USA) and became junior group leader at the University Potsdam. Her research is focused on finding new pathways to prohibit pathological platelet activation in the context of thrombosis, thromboinflammation and platelet ferroptosis, resulting in publications in high-impact journals (Nat Commun, ATVB, Cardiovasc Res etc.). In 2020 Dr. Rohlfing received the 39. Animal Welfare Research Award (Tierschutzforschungspreis) awarded by the German Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (Berlin, Germany).