Alina Katharina Loriani Fard

Alina Loriani Fard studied veterinary medicine at the University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover and graduated in 2017. She subsequently worked for two years as a research associate at Hannover Medical School in the fields of neuroanatomy and cell biology, where she investigated the function of dopaminergic neurons. She completed her doctoral research at the Institute of Veterinary Pathology at Freie Universität Berlin, focusing on molecular pathological aspects of immuno-oncology. In parallel, she completed a five-year specialist training program in veterinary pathology and worked in interdisciplinary research groups, where she performed and interpreted histopathological analyses, including as part of the Sonderforschungsbereich “Innate Immunity of the Lung” and the Einstein Center 3R. In 2024, she joined the HZI, where she initially worked as a research associate and animal welfare officer in the Service Platforms of Comparative Medicine and Comparative Pathology. Since 2026, she is head of the Comparative Pathology Platform.