Andreas Roos
Adjunct Professor, University of Ottawa
Scientific Officer, Department of Neuropediatrics, University Hospital Essen
Email AndreasAndreas completed his PhD in 2009 with Professor Jan Senderek in the Neurogenetics group of the Institute of Human Genetics of RWTH-Aachen University in Germany, where his thesis focused on the elucidation of molecular and biochemical mechanisms in autosomal recessive Charcot-Marie-Tooth neuropathies. Following a postdoc in the Institute of Molecular Biology and Medical Biochemistry at the University of Saarland, he became a junior group leader at the Institute of Neuropathology at RWTH-Aachen University. Subsequently, he took on the role of group lead of the Tissue Omics group at the Leibniz Institute of Analytical Science (ISAS) in Dortmund, focusing on applied proteomics toward a better understanding of the molecular genesis of neuromuscular diseases. In 2015 he moved to Newcastle upon Tyne (UK) as Scientific Officer in the John Walton Muscular Dystrophy Research Centre under Professor Hanns Lochmüller. After moving to Essen in Germany in 2018 to become Scientific Officer in the University Hospital Essen’s Department of Neuropediatrics, together with Prof. Ulrike Schara he was awarded a 2.9M Euro grant from the European Regional Development Fund for NMD-GPS, a major interdisciplinary multi-omics project aiming to improve the diagnostic management of patients with neuromuscular diseases as well as to group these diseases according to their underlying pathomechanisms.
In 2019 Andreas was awarded an adjunct professorship at the University of Ottawa, where he will be an external/visiting member of the Lochmüller Lab team, teaching applied proteomics in the context of neuromuscular diseases, co-supervising students and continuing his many close scientific collaborations with the group.

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Recent publications
Hentschel, A, Meyer, N, Kohlschmidt, N, Groß, C, Sickmann, A, Schara-Schmidt, U et al.. Correction: A Homozygous PPP1R21 Splice Variant Associated with Severe Developmental Delay, Absence of Speech, and Muscle Weakness Leads to Activated Proteasome Function. Mol Neurobiol. 2023. PMID:36941504
Schmitt, LI, David, C, Steffen, R, Hezel, S, Roos, A, Schara-Schmidt, U et al.. Spinal astrocyte dysfunction drives motor neuron loss in late-onset spinal muscular atrophy. Acta Neuropathol. 2023. PMID:36930296
Nguyen, CDL, Jimenez-Moreno, AC, Merker, M, Bowers, CJ, Nikolenko, N, Hentschel, A et al.. Periostin as a blood biomarker of muscle cell fibrosis, cardiomyopathy and disease severity in myotonic dystrophy type 1. J Neurol. 2023. PMID:36892629
Hentschel, A, Meyer, N, Kohlschmidt, N, Groß, C, Sickmann, A, Schara-Schmidt, U et al.. A Homozygous PPP1R21 Splice Variant Associated with Severe Developmental Delay, Absence of Speech, and Muscle Weakness Leads to Activated Proteasome Function. Mol Neurobiol. 2023.60 (5)2602-2618 PMID:36692708
Klann, PJ, Wang, X, Elfert, A, Zhang, W, Köhler, C, Güttsches, AK et al.. Seroprevalence of Binding and Neutralizing Antibodies against 39 Human Adenovirus Types in Patients with Neuromuscular Disorders. Viruses. 2022.15 (1) PMID:36680119
Phan, V, Hathazi, D, Preuße, C, Czech, A, Freier, E, Shema, G et al.. Molecular mechanisms in chloroquine-exposed muscle cells elucidated by combined proteomic and microscopic studies. Neuropathol Appl Neurobiol. 2023.49 (1)e12877 PMID:36633103
Danko, V, Jüngert, J, Schuessler, S, Buehler, A, Klett, D, Federle, A et al.. Hybrid reflected-ultrasound computed tomography versus B-mode-ultrasound for muscle scoring in spinal muscular atrophy. J Neuroimaging. 2023. PMID:36627228
Snijders Blok, L, Verseput, J, Rots, D, Venselaar, H, Innes, AM, Stumpel, C et al.. A clustering of heterozygous missense variants in the crucial chromatin modifier WDR5 defines a new neurodevelopmental disorder. HGG Adv. 2023.4 (1)100157 PMID:36408368
Forsting, J, Rohm, M, Froeling, M, Güttsches, AK, Südkamp, N, Roos, A et al.. Quantitative muscle MRI captures early muscle degeneration in calpainopathy. Sci Rep. 2022.12 (1)19676 PMID:36385624
Nelke, C, Pawlitzki, M, Schroeter, CB, Huntemann, N, Räuber, S, Dobelmann, V et al.. High-Dimensional Cytometry Dissects Immunological Fingerprints of Idiopathic Inflammatory Myopathies. Cells. 2022.11 (20) PMID:36291195
Guettsches, AK, Meyer, N, Zahedi, RP, Evangelista, T, Muentefering, T, Ruck, T et al.. FYCO1 Increase and Effect of Arimoclomol-Treatment in Human VCP-Pathology. Biomedicines. 2022.10 (10) PMID:36289705
Kleefeld, F, Uruha, A, Schänzer, A, Nishimura, A, Roos, A, Schneider, U et al.. Morphologic and Molecular Patterns of Polymyositis With Mitochondrial Pathology and Inclusion Body Myositis. Neurology. 2022.99 (20)e2212-e2222 PMID:36195449
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