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Professor Katja Gehmlich

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Professor Katja Gehmlich

Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Birmingham

Research Interests

Professor Katja Gehmlich is interested in how genetic variants in genes coding for proteins involved in biomechanical stress signalling cause inherited cardiac conditions (cardiomyopathies). She employs molecular, biophysical, cellular and in vivo models in her research. In particular she is interested in using induced pluripotent stem cell derived cardiomyocytes in her research.

Professor Gehmlich has a long standing interest into striated muscle systems.

Her research pursues the following questions:

  • What is the role of certain signalling proteins in the heart?
  • What are the consequences of genetic variants in these proteins? How do they cause inherited cardiac conditions (called cardiomyopathies)?
  • Can these diseases be modelled with the help of in vivo models and/or induced pluripotent stem cell derived cardiomyocytes?

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Current Projects (2025-26)

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