Mojca Frank Bertoncelj
Mojca Frank Bertoncelj, MD, Ph.D., is a group leader of the research team Protective Tissue Factors in Autoimmune Diseases at BioMed X Institute, Heidelberg, Germany, developing 3-D models of human synovium and exploring molecular mechanisms of resolution of inflammation in chronic inflammatory diseases. She holds a doctorate in Biomedicine at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, serves as a guest lecturer at the University of Primorska, Slovenia and is a VTIS society mentor for young talents in life sciences. She is a winner of BioMed X’s innovation boot camp and a recipient of the Walter-Siegenthaler Medaille in Silber for arthritis research. Before joining BioMed X, she was a junior group leader of the Integrative biology of immune-mediated inflammatory diseases team at the University Hospital Zurich/the University of Zurich, Switzerland.