Julia Gellert
Glashuetten
Overview
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Certification
Work History
Clinical Clerkship in Neurosurgery
Charité Universitätsmedizin
01.2024
- Hands-on experience on in-patient service, focus on spine surgery and neuro-oncology, assisted in the OR and participated in daily rounds and patient care
Observership in Neuro-Oncology
Massachusetts General Hospital
08.2023
- Shadowing Priscilla Brastianos, MD and Daniel Cahill, MD, PhD during out-patient neuro-oncology clinic and in the neurosurgical operating theater
Clinical Clerkship in Anesthesiology
Göttlicher Heiland Hospital
02.2023
- Hands-on experience on in-patient service, assisted during Einleitung und Ausleitung
Clinical Clerkship in Internal Medicine
Dr. med. Achim Witzel
09.2022
- Hands-on experience in an internal medicine doctor’s office, ultrasound skills, eigene Patienten betreut
Observership in Neuro-Oncology
Massachusetts General Hospital
10.2025 - 11.2025
- October 2025 – November 2025 (planned)
Education
M.D. - Medicine
Heidelberg University
Heidelberg, Germany12.2026
Skills
- Research: Cell culture work, animal work, flow cytometry, programming (R)
Affiliations
- Member of the Heidelberger Life Science Lab, Heidelberg, Germany – September 2012 – June 2017
- Youth organization of the German Cancer Research Center for scientifically talented students
Certification
- USMLE Step 1: „Passed“, 2025-05-13
- USMLE Step 2 CK: 268, 2025-07-21
Skills and Languages
German – native; English – fluent; Spanish – intermediate
Research Experience
- Medical thesis German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany Prof. Dr. med. Michael Platten’s laboratory April 2021 – July 2024 Studying the effects of tumoral type I interferons on the immune microenvironment of melanoma brain metastases
- Research stay Department of Melanoma Medical Oncology at the MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA Michael A. Davies’, MD, PhD laboratory November 2021 – December 2021 Research stay to characterize patient-derived Melanoma Moon Shot cell lines from melanoma brain metastases (MBM) and to analyze a transcriptomic MBM patient data set
- Research stay Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA Prof. James J. Chou’s laboratory August 2017 – October 2017 Research stay to investigate the structure and functional properties of the mitochondrial calcium uniporter complex, a calcium channel located in the inner mitochondrial membrane
Publications
- Publications: Gellert, Julia et al. “Tumoral Interferon Beta Induces an Immune-Stimulatory Phenotype in Tumor-Associated Macrophages in Melanoma Brain Metastases.” Cancer research communications vol. 4,8 (2024): 2189-2202. doi:10.1158/2767-9764.CRC-24-0024
- Presentations: Poster presentation at the annual meeting of the Association for Cancer Immunotherapy, Mainz, Germany – May 2024
- Poster presentation at the annual meeting of the European Association of Neurosurgical Societies, Sofia, Bulgaria – October 2024
- Poster presentation at the annual meeting of the European Association of Neuro-Oncology, Glasgow, Scotland – October 2024
Awards
Scholar of the Deutsche Forschungsggesellschaft (DFG)-funded Research Training Group GRK 2727 “Innate Immune Checkpoints in Cancer and Tissue Damage” of the Medical Faculty Mannheim and Heidelberg and the German Cancer Research Center – December 2024 – current, Scholar of the Deutsche Forschungsggesellschaft (DFG)-funded Research Training Group RTG2099 “Hallmarks of Skin Cancer” of the Medical Faculty Mannheim – April 2021 – April 2023, Scholar of the German Academic Scholarship Foundation – February 2019 – current
Hobbies and Interests
Triathlon, art
Timeline
Observership in Neuro-Oncology
Massachusetts General Hospital
10.2025 - 11.2025
Clinical Clerkship in Neurosurgery
Charité Universitätsmedizin
01.2024
Observership in Neuro-Oncology
Massachusetts General Hospital
08.2023
Clinical Clerkship in Anesthesiology
Göttlicher Heiland Hospital
02.2023
Clinical Clerkship in Internal Medicine
Dr. med. Achim Witzel
09.2022
M.D. - Medicine
Heidelberg University
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