Gruppenleiter
PD Dr. Nataliya Di Donato
Fachärztin für Humangenetik
- Leiterin der Forschungsgruppe Hirnfehlbildungen
0351 458-5137 0351 458-6337 Email
Academic research and clinical appointments
| 06/2019 – present | Head of the Clinical Genetics Department, Institute for Clinical Genetics, TU Dresden |
| 01/2018 – present | Principal Investigator, Institute for Clinical Genetics, TU Dresden |
| 06/2017 – 12/2017 | Maternity and parental leave |
| 04/2016 – 05/2017 | Habilitation Award, Faculty of Medicine CGC, TU Dresden |
| 11/2015 – 03/2016 | Group leader, Institute for Clinical Genetics, TU Dresden |
| 09/2014 – 10/2015 | DFG Research Fellowship Grant, Research postdoctoral fellow, Dobyns Lab, Center for Integrative Brain Research, Seattle Children’s Research Institute, Seattle, USA |
| 06/2011 – 09/2014 | Head of the Clinical Genetics Department, Institute for Clinical Genetics, TU Dresden |
| 06/2010 – 05/2011 | Board certified medical geneticist, Institute for Clinical Genetics, TU Dresden |
| 01/2007 – 05/2010 | Fellow physician and research associate, Institute for Clinical Genetics, TU Dresden |
| 09/2007 – 12/2006 | Swiss Government Awards University Scholarship, PhD Student and Medical Fellow, Institute for Medical Genetics, University of Zürich, Switzerland |
| 07/2002 – 08/2005 | Fellow at the Department of Human Genetics, Medical Academy of Postgraduate Education and Amosov National Institute of Cardiovascular Surgery, Kiev, Ukraine |
Areas of Expertise
Rare syndromes with multiple congenital anomalies and intellectual disability, genetics and cellular mechanisms of brain malformations, disease modeling using cerebral organoids, nonmuscle actinopathies; expertise in clinical and molecular genetics, diagnostics of rare Mendelian disorders, cellular disease models
Research Networks and Beacons
| 06/2020 – present | Coordinator of the European Joint Programme on Rare Diseases (EJP RD) funded research consortium: PredACTINg: Predicting the clinical outcome of non-muscle actinopathies |
| 03/2017 – present | WG3 work group leader of the European Network on Brain Malformations Neuro-MIG, COST Action CA16118, MC member |
| 04/2008 – 04/2011 | NGFN-plus program, „German Mental Retardation Network” (MRNET), member of the subproject, TP7 the Dresden MR center |