Research

Calcium and redox signals are essential regulators of many physiological and pathological processes. The primary focus of our research is to decipher the role of calcium and redox signaling on a molecular level in order to create a basis for new therapeutic approaches.

In the cardiovascular physiology department, the molecular mechanisms and possible therapeutic consequences of cellular hypoxia sensing and signaling are analyzed.

Optogenetics is a recently developed method allowing to control cellular behaviour with light after genetic manipulation. Thereby, optogenetic stimulation provides an unprecedented combination of cell-specificity and spatial as well as temporal precision.