Members | Leducq Fellows
Julia Radan, DVM, PhD

Julia Radan completed her studies in veterinary medicine at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich in 2018. Afterwards, she earned her doctoral degree in the field of preclinical cardiac xenotransplantation research at the LMU Klinikum, Munich, in 2024. She is currently working as a veterinarian in Eckhard Wolf’s Center for Innovative Medical Models at Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich, Germany. As a Leducq Fellow, her primary focus is the characterization of genetically modified pigs developed for tissue or organ xenotransplantation in humans, along with the intensive medical care and management of non-human primates following porcine cardiac xenotransplantation.

Representative publications include:

Bender M, Radan J, Reichart B, Leuschen M, Wall F, Mokelke M, Neumann E, Buttgereit I, Ayares D, Wolf E, Brenner P, Abicht JM, Längin M. Ultrasound Assessment of Pleural Effusions After Orthotopic Pig-to-Baboon Cardiac Xenotransplantation. Xenotransplantation. 2024 Nov-Dec;31(6):e70006. doi: 10.1111/xen.70006. PMID: 39552137. go to article

Bender M, Längin M, Reichart B, Mokelke M, Radan J, Neumann E, Michel S, Ellgass R, Cowan PJ, Wolf E, Abicht JM, Brenner P. Overcoming perioperative inflammation as a hurdle for successful preclinical orthotopic cardiac xenogeneic transplantations - particular in regard of the mandatory use of heart-lung machines. Xenotransplantation. 2022 May;29(3):e12749. doi: 10.1111/xen.12749. Epub 2022 May 26. PMID: 35616211. go to article

Bender M, Längin M, Reichart B, Mokelke M, Radan J, Neumann E, Michel S, Ellgass R, Cowan PJ, Wolf E, Abicht JM, Brenner P. Clinical cardiac xenotransplantation first in the clinical arena. Xenotransplantation. 2022 Jan;29(1):e12734. doi: 10.1111/xen.12734. Epub 2022 Feb 15. PMID: 35165939. go to article

Denner J, Längin M, Reichart B, Krüger L, Fiebig U, Mokelke M, Radan J, Mayr T, Milusev A, Luther F, Sorvillo N, Rieben R, Brenner P, Walz C, Wolf E, Roshani B, Stahl-Hennig C, Abicht JM. Impact of porcine cytomegalovirus on long-term orthotopic cardiac xenotransplant survival. Sci Rep. 2020 Oct 16;10(1):17531. doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-73150-9. PMID: 33067513; PMCID: PMC7568528. go to article

Längin M, Mayr T, Reichart B, Michel S, Buchholz S, Guethoff S, Dashkevich A, Baehr A, Egerer S, Bauer A, Mihalj M, Panelli A, Issl L, Ying J, Fresch AK, Buttgereit I, Mokelke M, Radan J, Werner F, Lutzmann I, Steen S, Sjöberg T, Paskevicius A, Qiuming L, Sfriso R, Rieben R, Dahlhoff M, Kessler B, Kemter E, Kurome M, Zakhartchenko V, Klett K, Hinkel R, Kupatt C, Falkenau A, Reu S, Ellgass R, Herzog R, Binder U, Wich G, Skerra A, Ayares D, Kind A, Schönmann U, Kaup FJ, Hagl C, Wolf E, Klymiuk N, Brenner P, Abicht JM. Consistent success in life-supporting porcine cardiac xenotransplantation. Nature. 2018 Dec;564(7736):430-433. doi: 10.1038/s41586-018-0765-z. Epub 2018 Dec 5. Erratum in: Nature. 2019 Apr;568(7752):E7. doi: 10.1038/s41586-019-1108-4. PMID: 30518863. go to article