Dr. Katharina Scherschel

Molecular biologist located in Düsseldorf – enthusiastic about neurons in the heart.

Scientific Study Coordinator at the Division of Cardiology, Evangelisches Krankenhaus Düsseldorf
Junior Research Group Leader at the Institute for Neural and Sensory Physiology, Heinrich-Heine University Düsseldorf

Research focus: To improve the understanding of the cardiac autonomic nervous system in order to help patients with cardiac arrhythmias

Coronary Microvascular Dysfunction and Premature Ventricular Contractions in Patients With Stable Angina

JAMA Network Open

December 2025

Ann-Kathrin Kahle, Bahram Wafaisade, Fares-Alexander Alken, Katharina Scherschel, Ernan Zhu, Nicola A. Cicco, Alexandru Gabriel Bejinariu, Florian Bönner, Malte Kelm, Mareike Cramer, Christian Meyer

IGF-1 promotes cell surface expression of HCN4 pacemaker channels contributing to tachycardia

Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology

November 2025

Nadine Erlenhardt, Franziska Wohlfarth, S. Erfan Moussavi-Torshizi, Angela Koch, Tobias Strasdeit, Katharina Scherschel, Ehsan Amin, Max Anstötz, Christian Meyer, Nikolaj Klöcker

Glia of the heart’s nervous system

Nature Reviews Neuroscience

October 2025

Katharina Scherschel, Hanna Wolf, Olujimi A. Ajijola, Kalyanam Shivkumar, Diana Lindner, Jose A. Gomez-Sanchez, Christian Meyer

Interactions of contact force, impedance, and power during repeated atrial arrhythmia ablation after previous atrial fibrillation ablation

Heart Rhythm

June 2025

Fares-Alexander Alken, Katharina Scherschel, Ernan Zhu, Bahram Wafaisade, Ann-Kathrin Kahle, Christian Meyer

Translational approach to ventricular innervation: the posterior descending ganglionated plexus

EP Europace

May 2025

Ann-Kathrin Kahle, Niklas Klatt, Katharina Scherschel, Christiane Jungen, Pawel Kuklik, Fares-Alexander Alken, Nikolaj Klöcker, Stephan Willems, Elvira Weber, Udo Boeken, Artur Lichtenberg, Alexander Bernhardt, Samer Hakmi, Dainius H. Pauza, Christian Meyer
For older publications, see the Publications page.