TTP Research in Bern

Coagulation and pedigrees have fascinated me since I was about 13 or 14 years old. After medical school I worked first as a research fellow and then trained in clinical hematology at the Department of Hematology, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, Bern, Switzerland. My mentors were Bernhard Lämmle and Miha Furlan, who in the early 1990ies embarked to identify the Von Willebrand factor multimer size regulator, the Von Willebrand factor-cleaving protease, now ADAMTS13, and in 1997 established the link between a severe deficiency of this protease and TTP. I was fortunate to witness this very closely and my fascination for this field has lasted ever since

Prof. Dr. med. Johanna Anna Kremer Hovinga Strebel