The Engel lab focuses on heart development, cardiac regeneration, and cardiac tissue engineering. Other topics are cancer and kidney disease.
Joined March 2020
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Jun 9
Congratulations to Aashwini Bhavsar for the extension of her @DAAD_Germany PhD fellowship. Big thank you to the @DAAD_Germany.
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Jun 5
Congratulations to my former PhD student/postdoc @KavehRBFR for joining the Medizinische Universität Graz in Austria as a Tenure Track Professor in Cardiovascular Engineering this September.
This is well deserved. I wish you all possible success.
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May 21
Congratulations to @KavehRBFR for his paper being among the most widely read Advanced Materials papers.
@dfg_public #UKER @Herzstiftung @UniFAU @BMBF_Bund @BMG_Bund @AvHStiftung @DAAD_Germany #ManfredRothStiftung @SanderStiftung @BZKF_bayern @rainerosenzweig
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May 16
A new milestone: Google Scholars H-Index: 60. Thanks to all current and former lab members and all funders:
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Apr 18
Thanks again to all Molecular Medicine students at the FAU for awarding me after 2024 again with the 1st award for good teaching ("erster Preis für gute Lehre") for the sommer semester 2025. It is an honor and my pleasure to teach.
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Mar 8
Thank you to the students of the Master Programm "Molecular Medcine" at the FAU for awarding me the Best Teaching Award. I feel very honored.
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Feb 9
What an achievement. We have by now convinced 65 different journals to publish our work. Big thank you to all former/current lab members and @dfg_public #UKER @Herzstiftung @UniFAU @BMBF_Bund @BMG_Bund @AvHStiftung @DAAD_Germany #ManfredRothStiftung @SanderStiftung @BZKF_bayern
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Feb 9
Congratulations to Swati @swatisrvstv to her
Nat Commun paper
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/4165…
Thank you for your hard work, your perseverance and believe in the project and me. For setting up the zebrafish facility in my lab and much more. I am very proud of you.
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Feb 7
PhD position available
Large project grant aiming at biofabricating functional tissues@SFB_TRR225
Looking for motivated person with experience in #biofabrication #vascularization #silk #hiPSC #heart #cardiomyocytes #microfluidics #endothelial cells.
felix.engel@uk-erlangen.de
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Feb 5
#Postdoc Position available: #LongCovid '#PostVAC #autoantibodies #GPCRs #Assay development #hiPSC #cardiomyocytes big consortium #PERCOLATE, patient data and material, 2 year contract, highly interdiscilinary and international team (15 researchers)
felix.engel@uk-erlangen.de
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Jan 18
A new milestone: Web of Science H-Index: 50. Thanks to all current and former lab members and all funders:
@dfg_public #UKER @Herzstiftung @UniFAU
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Jan 2
Happy New Year to all of you!
Thanks to all my lab members for their engagement to make it a pleasant place to work and for all your hard work to make the lab successful. We reached more citations then the year before.
I wish you all health, happiness, satisfaction, success!
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9 Dec 2025
Congratulations to @SilviaVerLet for her next publication on ncMTOCs. She did a fantastic job as first and corresponding author. We thank @dfg_public #UKER @UniFAU @rainerosenzweig Bavaria California Technology Center (BaCaTeC) for their financial support. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/4135…
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27 Nov 2025
Great news. Our large project grant aiming at biofabricating functional tissues @SFB_TRR225 has been extended for 4 years. Thank you especially to Jürgen Groll and all other members and the @dfg_public #UKER @UniFAU for their financial support.
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2 Oct 2025
Join us in Mallorca:
We’re hosting a symposium at @EuTermis 2026:
Electroconductive Materials in Tissue Engineering
🔎 From tissue maturation/functionality, to sensors, enabling smart drug release, and advancing disease intervention.
👉 Submit here
tinyurl.com/bddeu4da
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19 Aug 2025
A big thank you to Thomas Brabletz for collaborating and the @dfg_public for supporting our joined project at the #UKER @UniFAU studying the role of ferroptosis in cancer. I am very much looking forward to this exciting project.
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1 Jul 2025
The lab is growing. Welcome to the new lab members: Sarah Bolsinger, Jeeshan Singh, Ashis Bera Kumar and Arnaud Kamdem Tamo. I wish you all a very successful and fun time🙂
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29 Apr 2025
Congratulations to Ramona Hesselbarth: she received today her Dr. med. (MD) with honors (summa cum laude). Fantastic job!
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11 Apr 2025
Absolutely thrilled and honored! 🎉 Huge thanks to @SYIS_EU and @EuTermis for selecting me for the Impact Award. This means so much!
Thanks to @Engel_FB_Lab who provided the possibility to work in this area.
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11 Apr 2025
✨ Kaveh Roshanbinfar
@KavehRBFR 's groundbreaking research, "Electrically Conductive Collagen-PEDOT:PSS Hydrogel Prevents Post-Infarct Cardiac Arrhythmia and Supports hiPSC-Cardiomyocyte Function", has shown immense promise in addressing cardiovascular challenges.
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4 Mar 2025
We do currently not accept any applications anymore. Thank you to the over 200 applicants, I feel very honored that you are all interest in joining our lab.
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