The Engel lab focuses on heart development, cardiac regeneration, and cardiac tissue engineering. Other topics are cancer and kidney disease.

Germany
Joined March 2020
🧬 We are building increasingly detailed maps of human cells. How do we make them useful for everyone generating new data? Our new paper in Nature Genetics introduces ArchMap: a free web platform for mapping single-cell datasets onto reference atlases, without writing code. Built scArches, ArchMap brings reference mapping, cell-type annotation, uncertainty estimates and collaborative exploration into one workflow. One aspect I particularly like: understanding where a new dataset differs from the reference. In a pulmonary fibrosis example, we show how annotation uncertainty, followed by gene-expression analysis, can help reveal disease-associated cell states. For me, this is useful for Human Cell Atlas and related efforts: making the maps we build accessible as everyday tools for biological discovery. Congratulations to Mo , Chelsea, Ronald, Malte and the whole team! Try ArchMap: archmap.bio Read the paper: nature.com/articles/s41588-0… #SingleCell #HumanCellAtlas #ComputationalBiology
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Big thanks to my lab for organizing our yearly lab trip for team building. This time: canoeing. It was a lots of fun. #Flying #Dutchman @UniFAU @Uniklinikum_ER
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Welcome in our lab: Bambu Lab H2D Pro Plastic 3D Printer. New opportunities: #printing #3D #heart #models Big thank you to the family #Fälschle and @Herzstiftung Advancing @UniFAU @Uniklinikum_ER
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Welcome to the lab, Tanmay Jadhav. He will work during his PhD on recombinant #spider #silk and #3D #bioprinting of advanced #heart models in project C01 with Thomas Scheibel. @SFB_TRR225 @dfg_public @Herzstiftung @UniFAU @Uniklinikum_ER
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Congratulations to Salvador Cazorla Vázquez to his successful PhD defense: magna cum laude. You are the 10th PhD from the Engel lab. I am very proud and grateful that you chose my lab for your PhD. I wish you all the best for your future. @UniFAU @Uniklinikum_ER
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TRC summer party: my heartfelt thanks to the donors, my team, all guests and Hazim (Kaya) for having an unforgetably party with a great variety of food and a lab olympiade. @UniFAU @Uniklinikum_ER
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What a great opportunity to present our work to the public. #3Dbioprinting #biofabrication of human #heart ventricle models Schlossgartenfest post-impressions. Thanks a lot to Laura Kneppe for organizing and my team. @UniFAU @Herzstiftung @dfg_public @SFB_TRR225
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Congratulations to Jakob Oltmanns for receiving an IZKF fellowship to perform his MD thesis. Great job! @UniFAU #UKER
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Congratulations to Nishaat Shaikh for receiving the Poster Award 2026 at the 10th International IZKF-Symposium for her work on developing new #zebrafish models to study #cancer #metastasis. Fantastic job! @dfg_public @UniFAU @SanderStiftung @BZKF_bayern
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The AG Engel will be presenting today some of our science approaches, especially 3D printing of cardiac tissue, at this year's "Schlossgartenfest". Do visit our stand! The Schlossgartenfest in Erlangen is one of the biggest Garden Festivals in Europe. @UniFAU @Herzstiftung
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Congratulations to @SilviaVerLet for receiving authorization to teach (Lehrbefugnis) in the field of “Experimental Medicine” at @UniFAU , along with the right to use the title “Privatdozentin”. Great job. It is a privilege to have you in the lab.
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Congratulations to Aashwini Bhavsar for the extension of her @DAAD_Germany PhD fellowship. Big thank you to the @DAAD_Germany. @UniFAU #UKER
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Congratulations to my former PhD student/postdoc @KavehRBFR for joining the Medizinische Universität Graz in Austria as a Tenure Track Professor in Cardiovascular Engineering this September. This is well deserved. I wish you all possible success. #UKER @Herzstiftung @UniFAU
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A new milestone: Google Scholars H-Index: 60. Thanks to all current and former lab members and all funders: @dfg_public #UKER @Herzstiftung @UniFAU @BMBF_Bund @BMG_Bund @AvHStiftung @DAAD_Germany #ManfredRothStiftung @SanderStiftung @BZKF_bayern @rainerosenzweig
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Thanks again to all Molecular Medicine students at the FAU for awarding me after 2024 again with the 1st award for good teaching ("erster Preis für gute Lehre") for the sommer semester 2025. It is an honor and my pleasure to teach.
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Thank you to the students of the Master Programm "Molecular Medcine" at the FAU for awarding me the Best Teaching Award. I feel very honored.
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What an achievement. We have by now convinced 65 different journals to publish our work. Big thank you to all former/current lab members and @dfg_public #UKER @Herzstiftung @UniFAU @BMBF_Bund @BMG_Bund @AvHStiftung @DAAD_Germany #ManfredRothStiftung @SanderStiftung @BZKF_bayern
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