At the recent meeting of the working group of Molecular Biology of the German Reproductive Societies DGEEF and DGRM in Essen, Mr. Mohamed Ibrahim of WWU Münster received the award for the best scientific presentation. His contribution was selected among 20 competing presentations. Mr. Ibrahim presented the results of a cooperation of the teams of Sylvia Mechsner (Charité Berlin) and Martin Götte (WWU) on a novel stem cell population: The ‘pale cells’ may be implicated in the pathogenesis of adenomyosis and endometriosis.

In his PhD thesis, Mohamed Ibrahim analyses the work on a cell population initially discovered by the Berlin team (please click here for a link to the publication), and connects it to stem cell markers characterized by Prof. Götte’s group (here).