Anja Bremm

Anja studied Biology at the Georg-August University in Göttingen (Germany) and at Joseph Fourier University in Grenoble (France). She completed her PhD (Dr. rer. nat.) at the Technical University of Munich, where she became fascinated by how cells maintain homeostasis and control their fate. Her curiosity for structural biology led her to Cambridge (UK), where she joined David Komander’s lab at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology as a postdoctoral fellow. There, she discovered her passion for the ubiquitin system, a fascination that has inspired her research ever since.

In Cambridge, Anja explored the biology of atypical K11-linked ubiquitin chains and began to develop her own scientific focus on deubiquitinases (DUBs) and hypoxia signaling. After four exciting years in the UK, she returned to Germany to join Ivan Dikic’s group at Goethe University Frankfurt. Since 2014, Anja has led her own independent research group, first as an Emmy Noether Group Leader at the Buchmann Institute for Molecular Life Sciences, and since 2019 as Group Leader at the Institute of Biochemistry II, Goethe University Frankfurt. Currently, research in her lab focuses on understanding how ubiquitin signaling controls selective autophagy processes and contributes to cellular health.