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Our Team
Reprognostics GbR was founded in September 2017 with the goal of performing cycle-oriented and fast analysis of endometrial biopsies. Our multidisciplinary team includes physicians specialized in reproductive medicine, a pathologist, a biologist, and medical-technical assistants.
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Our goal is to offer you a high quality analysis of your endometrial biopsy.
Prof. Dr. Ruben Kuon
He completed medical school at the Ruprecht-Karls-University in Heidelberg with a one-year research stay in Phoenix, Arizona, USA in 2009. Here, the interest in the investigation of the mechanisms that play a crucial role in the development of high-risk pregnancies, in particular preterm birth, deepened.
The focus of his clinical and scientific work has expanded during the specialist training until January 2017 at the Heidelberg University Women’s Hospital to earlier stages of pregnancy and complications such as implantation failure and recurrent miscarriage. The subject of his postdoctoral thesis was the importance of immunological factors in miscarriage and preterm birth with a focus on the role of peripheral and uterine killer cells.
Since October 2016, he is the Head of special outpatient clinic for recurrent miscarriage at the Department of Gynecological Endocrinology and Fertility Disorders at the Heidelberg University Women’s Hospital.
Prof. Dr. Bettina Toth
Bettina Toth was born in Lauffen am Neckar, a large wine region in Württemberg and the birthplace of Friedrich Hölderlin, where she spent her school life and youth. She completed medical school at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen.
Already during her specialist training at the Women’s Hospital of the Julius-Maximilians University Würzburg and the Ludwig-Maximilians-University (LMU) Munich-Großhadern, she focused on reproductive medicine, high-risk pregnancies and recurrent miscarriage and completed postdoctoral thesis in 2008 at the LMU Munich. In October 2009 she moved to the Ruprechts-Karl University Heidelberg and worked there until 2016 as associated head of the department. During this time she developed the diagnosis of uterine killer cells and plasma cells together with Prof. Dr. med. Udo Markert (University of Jena).
Since October 2016, Bettina Toth is the Medical Director of the Medical University of Innsbruck Gynecological Endocrinology and Reproductive Medicine hospital
Her research focus is on reproductive immunology with more than 100 publications in international scientific journals. She is a member of the Guidelines Commission of the German Society for Gynecology and Obstetrics (DGGG) and is in charge of the guideline for recurrent miscarriage. In addition, Prof. Toth has published a textbook on "Miscarriage, preterm birth and stillbirths" together with Springer Verlag.
Prof. Dr. Timo Gaiser
Timo Gaiser was born in Sulz am Neckar and spent his school days and youth in Dornstetten (northern Black Forest).
Consequently, he completed his medical studies in the far north at the University of Lübeck.
From 2003 he worked at the Institute for Pathology at the Kassel Clinic. From 2009 to 2011 he completed a post-doctoral fellowship funded by the German Cancer Aid at the National Institutes of Health (Bethesda, USA) in the section of tumor genetics. From 2012 to 2022 he was Senior Physician and Head of Molecular Pathology and Immunohistochemistry at the Pathological Institute of the University Medical Center Mannheim. Beginning 2023 he joined the Institute for Applied Pathology in Speyer.
Prof. Gaiser has published over 100 original articles, many related to the technique of immunohistochemistry. Prof. Gaiser works as a lecturer in the field of immunohistochemical staining methods and digital pathology techniques. In the field of gynecological pathology, he acts as reference pathologist for clinical studies and has been involved in numerous projects to establish biomarkers.
Dr. Maja Weber
Maja Weber was born in Hohenmölsen, a town in the south of Saxony-Anhalt, where she went to school.
She studied biology at the Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena. After graduating she started a master thesis on the methodology of immunohistochemistry, entitled "Immunohistochemical studies on intracellular signal transduction in the human placenta" in the Placenta-Lab of the University Hospital Jena. Maja Weber also completed her doctoral thesis "Fusion capacity and stem cell properties of trophoblastic cells" at the University of Jena in the Placenta-Lab. She spent two research visits at the Reproductive Biology Research Center, School of Medicine of the Universidad de Valparaíso, Chile headed by Prof. Sebastian San Martin. During this stay she studied morphological and intracellular signal transduction of the placental development in experimental research projects. Her research focuses on reproductive immunology and placental development. She presented her results at numerous international congresses.
She established the endometrial diagnostics for patients with recurrent miscarriages and implantation failures in the Placenta -Lab in Jena. She was head of this unit starting in 2012 until December 2017. In January 2018, she joined Reprognostics GbR and is now leadingly involved in our diagnostic workflow of endometrial biopsies.
Sandra Kohlbecker
Sandra Kohlbecker was born in Heidelberg and still lives in the university city.
After successfully completing the advanced technical college entrance qualification at the health science school, she quickly noticed that she wanted to stay in the medical field.
She began training as a medical-technical laboratory assistant at the MTA school in Mannheim.
After successfully passing the examination, she initially worked for 2 years in a laboratory with a focus on the production of serological test systems and HPLC analysis.
Ms. Kohlbecker is part of our team at Reprognostics since March 2021.