Portrait Caroline Ospelt

Caroline Ospelt
Prof. Dr. med.

Forschungsgruppenleiterin, Department of Rheumatology

Specialties

  • The role of synovial fibroblasts in RA
  • Research areas: Synovial fibroblasts in arthritis, functional genomics
  • Expertise: Genetics, Epigenetics, scRNAseq, functional fibroblasts analysis

Contact

Tel. +41 43 253 31 71
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Research areas

Synovial fibroblasts in arthritis, Functional genomics

Expertise: Genetics, Epigenetics, scRNAseq, functional fibroblasts analysis

Career

Since 2020 Vice Head of Research, Center for Experimental Rheumatology, Department of Rheumatology, University Hospital Zurich
2014 – 2020 Senior Research Associate, Center for Experimental Rheumatology, Department of Rheumatology, University Hospital Zurich
2010 – 2012 Visiting Scientist, Department of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2003 – 2014 Research Associate, Center for Experimental Rheumatology, Department of Rheumatology, University Hospital Zurich

Academic path

Since 2020 Professor ad personam for Experimental Rheumatology, University of Zurich
2014 Habilitation, Venia legendi for Experimental Rheumatology
2012 PhD from the University of Amsterdam
2003 Dr. med. univ. of the Leopold-Franzens-University, Innsbruck, Austria
1995 – 2002 Medical studies, Leopold-Franzens-University, Innsbruck, Austria

Most important memberships

  • Swiss Society for Rheumatology

Further

  • Member of the clinic management
  • Research Group Manager

Publications

Publication list