Jana Pastuschek

Jana Pastuschek studied biology, specialising in microbiology, botany, genetics and anthropology at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena, supplemented by a study visit to Siena in Italy for several months on the prehistory and early history of man. She later expanded her knowledge with a Master of Science in Molecular Medicine at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena. After several years of scientific work at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology and the Institute of Forensic Medicine, both based in Jena, she has now been researching in the placenta laboratory at the Department of Obstetrics at Jena University Hospital for over twelve years.