Kerstin Jurk PhD

During her Ph.D., Kerstin Jurk focused her research on the cross-talk between platelets and leukocytes in the platelet group of Beate Kehrel in Münster, Germany. After finishing her Ph.D. in 1999, she continued platelet research as a postdoctoral researcher by elucidating mechanisms of platelet adhesion and their impact on vascular inflammation. She obtained a Lise-Meitner-Habilitation Fellowship of North Rhine-Westphalia, a personal grant as “Clinical Scholar Research Award” from the International Anesthesia Research Society, and an Eberhard Mammen 'Excellence in Thrombosis and Hemostasis Award. In 2012, she finished her habilitation in “Experimental Vascular Medicine” and moved to the CTH Mainz, Germany where she established the CTH platform “Platelet Function” and her platelet research group.

Her current research topics are the cross-talk of platelet-activating and inhibitory signaling pathways in relation to platelet function and interaction with leukocytes and vascular cells and platelet function disorders.