Ana Ivonne Vazquez-Armendariz was born in Mexico. She obtained her bachelor degree on Clinical Biochemistry with honors from the UANL in Mexico in 2009. In 2012, she completed her master degree in Molecular Medicine at the University of Medicine Charité, Germany. In 2013, she moved to Giessen where she did her PhD and postdoctoral training at the JLU. Her research work centered on the establishment of 3D lung organoid cultures for modeling of lung development and disease. In 2021, she was appointed Junior Group Leader of the "lung organoids and disease modeling” research group at the Institute for Lung Health, JLU Giessen. In 2023, she was recruited as Argelander Professor for Organoid Biology of the TRA Life and Health at the Bonn University. Her lab objective is to establish and utilize advanced murine and human immune in vitro models to uncover novel immune cell-specific molecular signalling pathways implicated in disease.
2013–2018 PhD Program of the Faculties of Human and Veterinary Medicine of the University of Giessen
2013-2015 International Graduate Program “Molecular Biology and Medicine of the Lung” (MBML) as part of the Giessen Graduate School of the Life Sciences (GGL)
2010–2012 M.Sc. in Molecular Medicine program, University of medicine Charité, Germany
2004–2009 Clinical Biochemistry Program, University of Nuevo León, Faculty of Medicine, Mexico
2023 Argelander Junior professor for Organoid Biology at the University of Bonn, member of the TRA "Life and Health", Germany
2021 Junior Group Leader at the Institute for Lung Health (ILH) of the research group “Lung organoids and disease modelling”, at the Justus-Liebig University Giessen (JLU), Germany
2021 Deputy director of the MBML International Graduate Program
2018 Tutor of the MBML International Graduate Program for the PhD students in their senior year
2018-2021 Postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Internal Medicine at the Universitätsklinikum Gießen und Marburg (UKGM)
2018 ATS International Trainee Travel Scholarship Award 2018
2017 ATS Abstract Scholarship Award and Science and Innovation Abstract Award
2016 Poster awards at SFB-TR84 2nd International Conference and 5th DZL meeting
2015 MBML Travel Award, 1st price in student examination
2010 Full scholarship awarded by the National Council of Science and Technology (CONACYT) in México to pursue my master degree in Molecular Medicine
2009 Academic merit award given by the Autonomous University of Nuevo León for the best student within each discipline
