Regenerative Medicine→

Jessica works inside a regenerative medicine institute. G.E.R.N. stands for Gewebeersatz, Regeneration und Neogenese, and it sits within the Department of Orthopaedics and Trauma Surgery at the University Medical Center Freiburg. She has been there since January 2025. In May 2025 she attended TERMIS EU, the European chapter conference of the Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine International Society, held at Messe Freiburg across four full days. That September she took part in a formal roundtable at the Sino-German symposium on biomaterials and tissue engineering held with Donghua University, and in December at the follow-up symposium with Nanjing Medical University on therapies for spinal, joint and oral tissue repair, wherein she also presented her thesis work orally. Both roundtables were chaired by professors from her own institute. Her contribution to the field is at the cellular end rather than the biomaterials end. What to replace a tissue with only becomes answerable once the behaviour of the cell that built it is understood.