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Women’s Health

Team NHC

Female-Controlled Non-Hormonal Contraception

Team NHC will focus its research on sperm motility as novel approach to control contraception by women themselves without interfering with the female hormone status. In particular, the team, led by Dr. Khulan Sergelen, will target the functionality of CatSper (cation channel of sperm) in an innovative way, by locking the canopy of CatSper.

Team Location BioMed X Institute Heidelberg

The research of this team is kindly supported by the Gates Foundation.

Our Team Members

Dr. Khulan Sergelen

Group Leader

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  • 2022 – 2026: Group Leader of team BDB (Advanced Biomarker detection for pharmacological monitoring in the brain), sponsored by Boehringer Ingelheim, BioMed X
  • 2019 – 2022: Assistant Professor (tenure-track), Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands
  • 2018 – 2019: Postdoctoral researcher at Molecular Biosensing for Medical Diagnostics (MBx) group, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands: Continuous monitoring biosensors based on particle mobility for inflammatory biomarkers monitoring application
  • 2012 – 2017: PhD joint degree in Bionanotechnology (IGS-BioNanoTech) at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU), Vienna and Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore: Reversible biosensors using aptamer-based surface plasmon-enhanced fluorescence spectroscopy and hydrogel architectures towards therapeutic drug monitoring application
  • 2009 – 2012: MSc Molecular Medicine, University of Vienna, Austria: Protein microarray screening of tumor autoantibodies for early colon cancer detection- Austrian Institute of Technology, Vienna
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Dr. Sagnik Biswas

Postdoctoral Researcher

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  • 2022 – 2024: Research Associate at Department of Life Science, Presidency University, Kolkata, India.
  • 2016 – 2022: Doctoral Researcher in Biomedical Sciences at Department of Life Science, Presidency University, Kolkata, India.
  • 2014 – 2016: Project Fellow at Department of Life Science, Presidency University, Kolkata, India.
  • 2010 – 2012: M.Sc. in Human Physiology, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India.
  • 2007 – 2010: B.Sc. in Human Physiology, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India.
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Dr. Rui Wang

Postdoctoral Researcher

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  • 2025 – 2026: Research Assistant in Reproductive Cell Biology, King’s College London, UK. studying gonadotropin receptor signalling and ovarian cell biology
  • 2020 – 2025: PhD in Molecular Biology, King’s College London, UK, in collaboration with TU Dresden, Germany. Research focused on ZIP9/SLC39A9 in zinc homeostasis and vertebrate reproduction
  • 2019 – 2020: MSc in Biomedical & Molecular Sciences Research, King’s College London, UK
  • 2015 – 2019: BEng in Biopharmaceutical Sciences, China Pharmaceutical University, China
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