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Molecular Psychiatry (2016) 21, 588589
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Monika Ehrhart-Bornstein, 19592015
Molecular Psychiatry (2016) 21, 588589; doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/mp.2016.52
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Dr. Monika Ehrhart-Bornstein, our dear personal friend and colleague (Heidenheim, 10 February, 1959Dresden, 24 October, 2015, Figures 1 and 2), completed studies in biology at the University of Ulm and earned a doctorate degree in 1988 on the subject of chromogranin A in the endocrine pancreas of cattle: cellular and subcellular distribution, characterization and quanti-cation. During the course of her studies, she also became acquainted with her future husband, Professor Stefan R. Bornstein.
She further pursued her scientic career as a scholarship holder at the Physiological Institute of the University of Bergen in Norway. In 1989 she was awarded a scholarship at the Panum Institute in Copenhagen, Denmark. This was followed by commitments as a research scientist at the University Hospital in Ulm, at the Department of Biochemistry of the University of Texas in Dallas, and at the University Hospital in Leipzig. Dr. Ehrhart-Bornstein moved to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, USA in 1998 to study the inuence of adenoviral vectors on adrenocortical steroidogenesis. In 2001 she was appointed team leader at the German Diabetes Research Institute in Dsseldorf, studying the adipocyte secretion products on adrenal steroidogenesis. She became laboratory director, University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus Dresden, in 2005....