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Dr. Katja Nuss, a habilitation candidate in Veterinary Surgery at
the Musculoskeletal Research Unit (MSRU), Equine Hospital, Vetsuisse
Faculty of the University of Zurich, is the receiver of the NCCR Co-
Me research grant for the advancement of women 2006. Her prize-
winning work studied the application of modern laser technology in
maxillofacial and dental surgery using the horse as a feasibility
study and clinical patient. She will use the prize sum of CHF 20'000
to publish the results of several projects studying the healing
process in bone.
Katja Nuss is a German citizen. She studied Veterinary Medicine at
the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of München and wrote her thesis on
"Monoclonal Antibodies Against a Human Glioma" in 1986. In 1990 she
earned a (German national) degree as a Specialist in Veterinary
Surgery. This was followed in the year 2000 by a degree as a
Specialist in Anaesthesiology.
Since October 2004 Katja Nuss is a Senior Scientist at the MSRU
where she also serves as vice-director. Recently she has been working
on her first-author publication about the comparison of different saw
blades as part of Co-Me project 12. She is co-author of at least 4
current or upcoming publications about bone healing in the peer
reviewed journals "Bone", and "Biomaterials".
Co-Me's Advisory Board for the Advancement of Women was impressed
by the level of Katja Nuss' work after two years in the group of PD
Dr. med. vet. Brigitte von Rechenberg - especially in view
of a 50% part time job and being a mother of four kids.
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