Henrike Heyne
hheyne.bsky.social
Henrike Heyne
@hheyne.bsky.social
Research group leader at Hasso Plattner Institute.
Medical genomics, precision medicine, epilepsy.
Reposted by Henrike Heyne
In a new study, @hheyne.bsky.social and her team identified a Finnish-enriched missense variant in the SCN5A gene that acts like a natural lifelong cardiac sodium channel blockade, decreasing the risk of cardiac arrhythmias while also having some negative effects.
hpi.de/en/article/h...
HPI study finds advances in the treatment of heart disease
HPI researchers Dr. Henrike Heyne, Julian Wanner and their team discover gene variant that acts like heart medication. Their study has now been published.
hpi.de
November 26, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Check out our new article in #Circulation on an astonishing genetic variant in the ion channel #SCN5A that enables us to learn about #cardiac-arrhythmia and their treatment with sodium channel blockers.
@finngen.bsky.social
www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/...
Congrats to @jwanner.bsky.social
Leveraging a Genetic Proxy to Investigate the Effects of Lifelong Cardiac Sodium Channel Blockade | Circulation
BACKGROUND: Atrial fibrillation and other cardiac arrhythmias pose a major public health burden, but prevention remains difficult. We investigated a genetic variant that we found to act like a natural...
www.ahajournals.org
November 24, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Reposted by Henrike Heyne
I'm setting up my lab at @hpi.bsky.social, on the edge of vibrant Berlin! PhD/postdoc positions in AI for safe synthetic biology & infectious diseases (AMR), in collab with @melanianowicka.bsky.social.

Apply by Feb 24: email [email protected] with “[Open-25]” in the subject. DM for details!
February 11, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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We’re excited to share that our paper on rapid molecular classification of brain tumors has just been published in Nature Medicine!
March 2, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Check out this great talk by @franriss.bsky.social (PhD student in my lab) on "Comparing protein language models through embedding space comparison" in the famous MIA meeting. Thanks so much to Sumaiya Iqbal for co-supervising and hosting her at @broadinstitute.org
www.youtube.com/watch?v=y747...
MIA Lightning Talks (2025)
YouTube video by Broad Institute
www.youtube.com
March 20, 2025 at 10:36 AM