Jonathan Schulz

In Ausbildung/Studium: Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Harvard Medical School

Mainz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

About

Medical student interested in multidisciplinary international research in medicine and health policy. Graduate Student Researcher at Harvard Medical School, Mass General Hospital and Scholarship holder of the Konrad-Adenauer-Foundation, the Emeralds-Future-Program of the Boston-Consulting-Group (BCG) and of the Verkehrsgesellschaft Worms-Wonnegau. Conducting a research stay at the Harvard Medical School’s Center for Transplantation Sciences, under the leadership of Principal Investigator Dr. Richard Pierson, PhD, MD David Cooper, PhD MD Tatsuo Kawai, and MD David Sachs. The center is a world-renowned institution known for its groundbreaking work in xenotransplantation and immunology. In 2024, the team successfully performed the first transplantation of a pig kidney into a human. Dr. David Sachs is widely recognized as the discoverer of the MHC-II molecule.

Experience

  • Research Scholar at Harvard Medical School
    Oct 2024 - Present · 1 yr 10 mos

    Research stay, semester abroad Research in Xenotransplantation - Historic First Pig-to-Human Kidney Transplant - Research in Pig-to-Baboon Transplants - Ex-Vivo-Perfusions of Pig Heart and Lungs - in-vitro experiments with human NK-cells in the context of Xenotransplantation Scholarship: Research abroad Grant "Konrad-Adenauer-Foundation" Scholarship from "Verkehrsgesellschaft Worms Wonnegau"

  • Research Scholar at Massachusetts General Hospital
    Oct 2024 - Present · 1 yr 10 mos

    Research work at the Center for Transplantation Science, cardiac surgery, MGH/Harvard Medical School. PI Dr. Richard Pierson, PhD MD David Cooper, PhD MD Tatsuo Kawai and MD David Sachs. The Center for Transplantation Sciences is world-renowned for its breakthroughs in xenotransplantation and immunology. In 2024, the team successfully performed the first transplantation of a pig kidney into a human. David Sachs is recognized as the discoverer of the MHC-II molecule. https://www.massgeneral.org/transplant/cts/research/pierson-laboratory

  • Universitätsmedizin Mainz (4 yrs 7 mos)
    • Hilfswissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter an der 1. Medizinischen Klinik und Poliklinik Mainz
      Oct 2023 - Present · 2 yrs 10 mos

      Research Assistant at the 1st Department of Internal Medicine, University Medical Center Mainz.

    • Doctoral Candidate at the Center for Cardiac, Thoracic, and Vascular Surgery
      2022 - Present · 4 yrs 7 mos

      Clinical trials

  • Stipendium Begabtenförderung, Scholarship for the Advancement of Gifted Students at Konrad Adenauer Stiftung
    2020 - Present · 6 yrs 7 mos

  • Tennis Coach at Hochschulsport Uni Mainz
    Jul 2021 - Aug 2024 · 3 yrs 2 mos