Responsibilities
Group Leader
Contact
Pharmacy Department
Molecular Pharmacology
Butenandtstr. 7
D-81377 München
Phone:
+49(0)89-2180-77654
Fax:
+49(0)89-2180-75216
Email:
Susanne.Koch@bmc.med.lmu.de
Website:
https://www.cup.uni-muenchen.de/de/departments/pharmazie/personen/prof-dr-susanne-koch/?lang=de
Further Information
Research focus: Retinal plasticity
Key Words: Retinal function, degeneration, remodelling, gene therapy, retinitis pigmentosa
GSN Students: Jacqueline Kajtna
Selected publications:
Koch SF, Tsang SH (2018): Successes of gene therapy in late-stage and low-efficiency treatments. Adv Exp Med Biol. 1074:101-107
Koch SF, Duong JK, Hsu CW, Tsai YT, Lin CS, Wahl-Schott CA, Tsang SH (2017): Genetic rescue models refute nonautonomous rod cell death in retinitis pigmentosa. PNAS 16;114(20):5259-5264
Koch SF, Tsai YT, Duong JK, Wu WH, Hsu CW, Wu WP, Bonet-Ponce L, Lin CS, Tsang SH (2015): Halting progressive neurodegeneration in advanced retinitis pigmentosa. J Clin Invest. 125(9):3704-13
Koch S, Sothilingam V, Garcia Garrido M, Tanimoto N, Becirovic E, Koch F, Seide C, Beck SC, Seeliger MW, Biel M, Mühlfriedel R, Michalakis S (2012): Gene therapy restores vision and delays degeneration in the CNGB1-/- mouse model of retinitis pigmentosa. Hum Mol Genet. 21(20):4486-96