Karin Wuertz-Kozak
ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Biography
Karin Wuertz-Kozak was born in 1978 in Germany. She received her degree in Pharmaceutical Sciences from the University of Regensburg, Germany in 2003 and her Ph.D. in Human Biology from the University of Ulm, Germany in 2006, based on her work in intervertebral disc cell mechanobiology. She was a Researcher at the University of Vermont, USA from 2006 to 2007 before joining and shortly thereafter taking over the Spine Research Unit at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. After having had a dual affiliation between xxx and xxx, she was promoted to a full-time research position at the ETH Zurich, Switzerland, one of the leading universities worldwide. In the subsequent years, she complemented her educational profile with an ETH habilitation as well as an MBA degree. Since July 2016, she is Assistant Professor for Immunoengineering & Regenerative Medicine at the ETH Zurich, with a focus on the pathophysiology and treatment of degenerative disc disease.
Abstract
Abstract : Biology and Regenerative Medicine Aspects of the Intervertebral Disc