Nicola Diny studied Biomedicine and Biotechnology in Vienna and Molecular Medicine at the Charité Berlin. She obtained her PhD from Johns Hopkins University working on the role of eosinophils as drivers of inflammation and chronic adverse remodelling of the heart. For this work she received a Predoctoral Fellowship from the American Heart Association and several basic and translational research awards. She continued to study eosinophil tissue functions and the aryl hydrocarbon receptor at the Francis Crick Institute, supported by an EMBO Postdoctoral Fellowship and then a Sir Henry Wellcome Fellowship. In 2023, she started a Junior Research Group at the Institute of Clinical Chemistry and Clinical Pharmacology at the University Hospital Bonn to work on eosinophil tissue adaptation and function.
2017 Ph.D., Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Johns Hopkins University, USA, Prof. Noel Rose, Prof. Daniela Čiháková
2017 M.Sc. in Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, USA (concurrent with PhD)
2011 M.Sc. in Molecular Medicine, Charité Medical School, Germany
2008 B.Sc. in Biomedicine and Biotechnology, University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, Austria
06/2023–present Junior Group Leader, Institute for Clinical Chemistry and Clinical Pharmacology, University Hospital Bonn, Germany
2017-2023 Postdoctoral Training Fellow, The Francis Crick Institute, London, UK
Honors and awards
2020-2024 Sir Henry Wellcome Fellowship, Wellcome Trust
2018-2020 EMBO Long-Term Postdoctoral Fellowship, EMBO
2017 1st place, Basic Science, 8th Johns Hopkins (JHU) Cardiovascular Research Retreat
2017 Trainee Abstract Award for oral presentation, American Association of Immunologist
2016 Excellence in Translational Research Award, Department of Pathology, JHU
2016 1st place, Laboratory Research, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
2015-2017 Pre-doctoral Fellowship, American Heart Association
2015 Excellence in Basic Research Award, Dept. of Pathology, JHU
2014 Frederik B. Bang Award for Student Research, JHU
2013 Travel Grant Award, International Eosinophil Society
