Stefanie Obst

Stefanie Obst completed both her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Molecular Biology with a focus on experimental research in perinatal neuroscience. During her Master’s degree, she studied an experimental hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy model equivalent to term infants under the supervision of Dr Josephine Herz. For her PhD, she extended her expertise to the preterm stage. She is currently working under the supervision of Professor Ivo Bendix on the establishment of a combined model of hyperoxia-induced developmental brain and lung injury in neonatal rats. This model allows the study of the lung-brain axis and testing therapeutic approaches for both affected organs simultaneously.