Christina Lamers graduated in pharmacy in 2008 at the Goethe-University of Frankfurt/Main, Germany. Her practical year she spent 6 month at Merz Consumer Care, Frankfurt/Main before she got licensed as pharmacist in 2009. She was PhD student from 2010-2014 in the group of Prof. Manfred Schubert-Zsilavecz at the Pharmaceutical Chemistry Department of Goethe-University Frankfurt/Main. In 2014 she defended her PhD thesis titles “Synthesis and characterization of fatty acid mimetics as ligands for nuclear receptors PPARs and FXR”. From 2015 – 2017 she worked as a post-doctoral fellow on phage display evolved bicyclic peptides in the lab of Prof. Christian Heinis at EPFL, Switzerland. During this postdoc she won a Marie-Curie individual fellowship. In November 2017 she joined the group of Prof. Daniel Ricklin as post-doctoral fellow at the Institute of Molecular Pharmacy at the University Basel.