Brenda Gerull

Brenda Gerull received her MD at the Humboldt University, Berlin and worked as a clinician scientist for several years at the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) and Charite in Berlin. In 2009 she started her own lab as an Assistant Professor at the University of Calgary and Libin Cardiovascular Institute of Alberta, Canada. Since 2016 she holds the Professorship for Cardiovascular Genetics at the Comprehensive Heart Failure Center and Medical Clinic I at the UKW in Würzburg. She has a longstanding interest in genetic causes and molecular mechanisms of inherited cardiomyopathies with a main focus on arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy. Her research focused on the use of complementary human studies and model system approaches to understand the biological basis of inherited cardiac diseases.