Roswitha Gropp
Hospital of the LMU, Germany
Biography
Roswitha Gropp has over 25 years of experience in preclinical development and inflammatory diseases. She recently took on a different view considering the inflammatory process in UC as an uncontrolled wound healing process. This hypothesis assumes that epithelial damage induces the release of signals to evoke a Th2 characterized inflammatory response that ultimately results in repair of the colon. Using agent based modeling first disease maps were developed to describe the inflammatory milieu and the dynamics of the inflammatory response. This approach together with immunological profiling of patients allows for a better understanding of underlying mechanisms ultimately leading to individualized therapies.