Franziska Herrmann's disputation took place on September 4, 2012. Her dissertation is entitled "Modeling a Gene Regulatory Network of Early Murine Heart Development".
On the same day Manuel Lüdeke defended his dissertation on "Predisposition for TMPRSS2-ERG Fusion in prostate cancer by variants in DNA repair genes".
Xiaoming Dong defended his dissertation on September 24. The dissertation is entitled "In vitro neuronal cell model for Huntington's disease by high capacity adenoviral vector mediated expression of huntingtin".