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Fields of Work and Expertise

Innate Immunity Tissue Biology Immunometabolism 

 Gestational diabetes 

Professional Background

01/2023

Junior group leader, M3 and Medical Faculty and doctor, Medical Clinic IV - Diabetology, Endocrinology, Nephrology

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06/2021-12/2022

Training in internal medicine (Medical Clinic and Polyclinic IV), LMU Clinic, Munich

04/2019-05/2021

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Ari Molofsky Lab, Dept. of Laboratory Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, USA

01/2014-03/2019

Training in internal medicine (Medical Clinic for Endocrinology and Metabolic Medicine), Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin

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2013

Dissertation and license to practice medicine, Freiburg University Hospital

2006-2013

​​​​​​​Study of human medicine, University of Freiburg; Stays abroad in Grenoble (France), Zurich (Switzerland) and Buenos Aires (Argentina)

  • Scholarship of the Berlin Institute of Health Junior Clinican Scientist Program 2016
  • BIH Paper of the Month 2018
  • 2-year DFG fellowship: "The type 2 immune response in the perivascular niche in visceral fetal tissue" 2019
  • 6-month DFG return fellowship 2021
  • FöFoLe start-up funding from the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich 2021
  • Scholarship Clinician Scientist Program of the German Society of Internal Medicine (DGIM) 2021
  • General project funding from the German Society for Diabetology (DDG) 2022

Publications

Early Hum. Dev. 206:106272 (2025)

Auchynnikava, V. ; Semeia, L. ; Sippel, K. ; Sbierski-Kind, J. ; Fritsche, A. ; Birkenfeld, A.L. ; Paluscke-Fröhlich, J. ; Wikström, A.K. ; Preissl, H.

Fetal heart rate variability in relation to maternal physical activity and metabolic health.
Front. Immunol. 16:1559326 (2025)

Sbierski-Kind, J. ; Schlickeiser, S. ; Semeia, L. ; Harada, S. ; Pappa, E. ; Cujar, J.V. ; Katschke, M.T. ; Gar, C. ; Lechner, A. ; Birkenfeld, A.L. ; Ferrari, U. ; Seissler, J.

Association of overweight/obesity and insulin resistance with activation of circulating innate lymphoid cells in women after gestational diabetes mellitus.
Mol. Metab. 91:102067 (2025)

Lorza-Gil, E. ; Strauss, O. ; Ziegler, E. ; Kansy, K. ; Katschke, M.-T.  ; Rahimi, G. ; Neuscheler, D. ; Sandforth, L. ; Sandforth, A. ; Sancar, G. ; Kaufmann, B. ; Hartmann, D. ; Singer, S.R. ; Mihaljevic, A.L. ; Jumpertz von Schwartzenberg, R. ; Sbierski-Kind, J. ; Müller, T.D. ; Birkenfeld, A.L. ; Gerst, F.

Incretin-responsive human pancreatic adipose tissue organoids: A functional model for fatty pancreas research.

Networks and Affiliations

Logo Deutsches Zentrum für Diabetesforschung e.V.

German Center for Diabetes Research

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