© Srinivas Allanki
Dr.

Arica Beisaw

Projects:

Junior Research Group Leader
Institute of Experimental Cardiology
Medical Faculty Heidelberg, Heidelberg University
Germany
Eppelheimer Str. 8
69115 Heidelberg

Research Interests

Molecular and cellular mechanisms of cardiac regeneration and repair in zebrafish and mouse models, cardiomyocyte regeneration, intercellular interactions, transcription factors and epigenetics, chromatin regulation.

Selected Coordinating Functions and Awards

2025
Speaker, Focus Area: Regenerating Hearts, German Centre for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK)
2025
Organizing Committee Member, 1st German Fish Models Meeting, Heidelberg, Germany
2025
Co-Guest Editor, Special issue “Recent Advances in Cardiovascular Biology”, Seminars in Cell and Developmental Biology
2025
Alliance +Program Award, Heidelberg University
2023
Deputy Representative for Junior Researchers, Life Sciences (Field of Focus 1) Research Council, Heidelberg University
2022
Co-chair of the GRS for Cardiac Regulatory Mechanisms, USA
2021
Promotion of Women Scientists Grant, DZHK
2020
NRSA Individual Postdoctoral Fellowship (F32HL143839), NIH
2009
Dartmouth Molecular and Cellular Biology Training Grant (T32GM008704)
2007
National Institutes of Health (NIH) Summer Cancer Research Training Award

CRC1550 Related Publications

2024

Leveraging chromatin state transitions for the identification of regulatory networks orchestrating heart regeneration

Cordero J, Elsherbiny A, Wang Y, Jürgensen L, Constanty F, Guenther S, Boerries M, Heineke J, Beisaw A, Leuschner F, Hassel D, Dobreva G

Nucleic Acids Res. 52:4215-33, 2024

2024

Transient inhibition of translation improves cardiac function after ischemia/reperfusion by attenuating the inflammatory response

Hofmann C, Serafin A, Schwerdt OM, Fischer J, Sicklinger F, Younesi FS, Byrne NJ, Meyer IS, Malovrh E, Sandmann C, Jürgensen L, Kampf-Schenk V, Stroh C, Löwenthal Z, Finke D, Boileau E, Beisaw A, Bugger H, Bettel M, Stein F, Katus HA, Jakobi T, Frey N, Leuschner F, Völkers M

Circulation 150:1248-67, 2024

 

2025

Border-zone cardiomyocytes and macrophages contribute to remodeling of the extracellular matrix to promote cardiomyocyte protrusion during zebrafish cardiac regeneration

Constanty F, Wu B, Wei KH, Lin IT, Dallmann J, Guenther S, Lautenschlaeger T, Priya R, Lai SL, Stainier DYR & Beisaw A.

Nature Communications 16:3823, 2025

2025

Cardiac regeneration: Unraveling the complex network of intercellular crosstalk

Wu B*, Constanty F*, Beisaw A

Seminars in Cell and Developmental Biology 2025; 171: 103619.