Schulz, Martin, Dr.

Research Interests

• Lymphangiogenesis/metastasis 3D in vitro model
• Embryonic stem cell research
• Bioengineering and drug discovery

Education & Positions held

2012 - present
Postdoctoral Fellow with Prof. Michael Detmar, Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Pharmacogenomics, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich, Switzerland

2008 - 2011
Ph.D. thesis with Prof. Michael Detmar,
Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Pharmacogenomics, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich, Switzerland

Member of the Molecular Life Sciences Program

2007
Master thesis “Systematic approach to the role of Bid in programmed cell death” with Dr. Anne Hamacher-Brady and Prof. Roland Eils, BioQuant and German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), University of Heidelberg, Germany

2005 - 2007
Master of Science in Molecular Biotechnology at the University of Heidelberg, Institute of Pharmacy and Molecular Biotechnology, Germany

2005-2006
Exchange year with UMass Amherst and MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, in the fields of drug delivery and stem cell research

2002-2005
Bachelor of Science in Molecular Biotechnology at the University of Heidelberg, Institute of Pharmacy and Molecular Biotechnology, Germany

Publications

2010
Gladilin, E, Schulz, M, Kappel, C, Eils, R. Contactless determination of nuclear compressibility using 3D image- and model-based analysis of drug-induced cellular deformation. Journal of Microscopy. 240 (3): 216-26

2009
Schulz MMP, Gebäck T, Koumoutsakos P, Detmar M. TScratch: A novel and simple software tool for automated analysis of monolayer wound healing assays. BioTechniques, 46: 265-274

2008
Dadras, S.S., Skrzypek, A., Nguyen, L., Shin, J.W., Schulz, M.M., Arbiser, J., Mihm, M.C., and Detmar, M. (2008). Prox-1 Promotes Invasion of Kaposiform Hemangioendotheliomas. J. Invest Derm, 28: 2798-806

2007
Townsend, S. A., G. D. Evrony, F.X. Gu, M. P. Schulz, R. H. Jr. Brown, B. Langer. (2007). Tetanus toxin C fragment-conjugated nanoparticles for targeted drug delivery to neurons. Biomaterials 28 (34): 5176-84.