Azra Fatima
University of Cologne, Germany
Biography
Dr. Azra Fatima completed her PhD in 2011 at the University of Cologne, Germany. She continued Postdoc fellow for one year and subsequently she became an independent group leader of the Cologne-Fortune research grant in 2014. Dr. Fatima worked in active collaboration with the University of Harvard and University of North Carolina. Dr. Fatima research efforts led to have excellent publication track record in the fields of human and murine embryonic stem cell and cardiovascular disease modeling by generating human cardiovascular diseased patient fibroblasts reprogrammed into human induced pluripotent stem cell (hiPS) for cardiomyocytes generation for the heart transplantation potential. She used retroviral vectors integrated with reprogramming factors in it to generate hiPS.