improvement of osteogenesis in elderly people.
About the author
Anjali P. Kusumbe (PhD)
Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine
Roentgenstrasse 20, 48149 Muenster, Germany
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03/2012 to Present: Postdoctoral fellow
Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine
Muenster, Germany
07/2005 – 01/2012: PhD student
National Center for Cell Science (NCCS), Pune, India
Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Government of India
Award of PhD degree (01/2013)
08/2004 - 06/2005: Junior Research Fellow
Indian Institute of Science, Bangaluru, India
08/2002 - 04/2004: Master of Science; Biotechnology
Hislop School of Biotechnology, Nagpur University, India
07/1999 - 07/2002: Bachelor of Science
Institute of Science, Nagpur University, India
Acknowledgements
I express my sincere gratitude to Prof. Dr. Ralf H. Adams for his
invaluable scientific inputs and constant support. I am grateful
to Saravana K. Ramasamy for his contribution to this work (equal
contribution). Finally, I would like to thank all the members of
Adams department.
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