I am a highly motivated, interdisciplinary student with a great personal dedication for translational medicine. I hold a Bachelor of Science degree in Molecular Biotechnology from the University of Heidelberg, Germany, and I am currently enrolled in both Medicine and Molecular Biotechnology in the Master's program. Driven by my curiosity for science and medicine, I have done numerous internships at reasearch institutions such as DKFZ & MPI (Heidelberg, Germany), participated in the international iGEM competition at MIT (Boston, US) and studied at Tribhuvan Teaching Hospital (Kathmanu, Nepal).

My medical doctor research focuses on gene correction strategies based on prime editing technology to reverse the three most common USH2A mutations. Mutations in the USH2A gene can lead to Usher syndrome, an inherited deaf-blidness syndrome for which no treatments for vision loss are available. A side project of mine, I am evaluating small Cas variants as CRISPR activators that met the packing limit of AAVs.

I have fallen in love with beautiful Zurich. In my free time I enjoy to be in the mountains hiking, mountain biking, bouldering or at the lake swimming and relaxing.