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Melanie Jasmin Ort

26th June 2023

is a biomedical researcher at Freie Universität and Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin. She received her Master’s degree in Biology from the University of Freiburg, Germany. She had the chance to work internationally at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. She was a visiting researcher at Whitehead Institute of biomedical research at MIT, and Harvard medical school Boston, USA. She combines patient-centered studies with animal-free research to decipher the role of adaptive immunity in musculoskeletal regeneration. She develops and applies advanced human 2D and 3D in vitro methods. For which the animal welfare officer of the State of Berlin awarded her the young scientist prize. As part of her research, she works very closely with her colleagues in orthopedic and trauma surgery and actively promotes the use of patient tissues and cells in research to improve the translation of research results into clinical applications. She is also actively involved in teaching non-animal methods and bioethics in regard to animal experiments to younger PhDs student. She publishes in biomedical journals such as Advanced science, Nature communications and Frontiers of Immunology.