Research team


Scientific staff

Dr. rer. nat. Rui P. L. Neves
Rui.Neves@med.uni-duesseldorf.de
Telf. +49 (0)211 81 06012
Public Profiles: List of Publications (PubMed), Linkedin
I graduated Biochemistry in 2003 (Uni. Coimbra, Portugal) and completed my Ph.D. in 2008 (Uni. Düsseldorf, Germany). My research has been focused in the optimization of methods and workflows to interrogate the heterogeneity of tumours and circulating tumour cells in order to explore its relevance for disease progression and therapy resistance.


Junhao Wu
JunHao.Wu@med.uni-duesseldorf.de
Telf. +49 (0)211 81 06022
I graduated Clinical Medicine from Shanghai Jiao Tong University (China) in 2010. Now, for my medical doctor degree, I am exploring technologies and developing workflows for isolating circulating tumor cells using magnetic particles.

Yian Ma
Yihan.Ma@med.uni-duesseldorf.de
Telf. +49 (0)211 81 06022
In my master thesis, completed in Xiamen University (China), I have analysed circulating cell-free miRNA in patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) and explored differences associated with EGFR mutational status. Now, I am focused on the analysis of DNA methylation in CTCs and I aim to understand its contribution to gene expression and metastases.

Monica Sudarsanam
Monica.Sudarsanam@med.uni-duesseldorf.de
I graduated Life Science Informatics from University of Bonn, Germany in 2018 and currently working on my Ph.D. My PhD projects are about concerning the genomic analysis of Single circulating tumor cells (CTCs) by constructing their sub-clonal architectures to get deeper insights into the biology of systemic progression, tumor evolution and therapeutic resistance in different types of cancers. I am also interested in designing workflows to optimize processing, extraction and analysis of mutational data from CTCs with extremely low sequence coverage.
MSc-, BSc- and MD-students

Maximilian Elischa Daniels (MSc student)

Celine Aybiken Örencik (MSc student)
Technical Assistants

Maria Wecker
Maria.Wecker@med.uni-duesseldorf.de
Telf. +49 (0)211 81 16886
Chief technichian. Animal models. Cell biology assays. CTC detection. Laboratory organization and safety.
