Danielle Brandes is a PhD student at the Heinrich-Heine University Düsseldorf and associated graduate student of the Düsseldorf School of Oncology.
She joined the Pediatric Oncology Department of the University Clinics Düsseldorf in 2020 and started her research project under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Arndt Borkhardt. Since then, she is interested in genomic variation with regard to childhood cancer predisposition and pathogenesis, with focus on B-cell precursor acute lymphoblastic leukemia. She aims to decipher structural variation landscapes of children with cancer by applying optical genome mapping and long-read sequencing approaches.
Danielle completed her Bachelor of Science in Biology at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz followed by a Master of Science in Molecular Biomedicine at the University of Münster.