MSACL Presenter Biography

Heike Bittersohl
Klinikum rechts der Isar

Dr. Heike Bittersohl is currently a Post-Doc at the Institute for Clinical Chemistry and Biochemistry at Klinikum rechts der Isar of the Technical University in Munich. She studied pharmacy at the Ludwig-Maximilian-University and received her pharmaceutical license in 2008. As a PhD student, she analyzed DNA-adducts in human pancreatic tissue using high-resolution mass spectrometry combined with gas chromatography. After working in the regulatory department of Harrison Clinical Research Deutschland GmbH for one and a half years, she returned to academic research. She joined the working group of Prof. Dr. Peter B. Luppa, which is affiliated with the department of Clinical Chemistry at Klinikum rechts der Isar. In the course of the European project NANODEM, she developed a highly sensitive LC-MS/MS method for determination of minimal immunosuppressant drug concentrations.