Soni Savai Pullamsetti is a professor at the Cardio Pulmonary Institute (CPI) of Justus Liebig University in Giessen, Germany, where she leads the research group “Lung Vascular Epigenetics”. She also leads a group for “Molecular Mechanisms of Pulmonary Vascular Diseases” at the Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research (MPI-HLR), Bad Nauheim, Germany. The focus of Prof. Pullamsetti’s lab is centered on understanding how epigenetic mechanisms and transcription factors impact gene regulation so that this information can potentially be used to develop new therapeutic strategies for lung diseases esp. pulmonary hypertension, right heart failure and pulmonary fibrosis. Recently she received prestigious European Research Council (ERC) consolidator grant to understand the developmental origins of pulmonary hypertension.

Soni Pullamsetti was born in Andhra Pradesh, India. She received her undergraduate degree from Osmania University, and Master of Science in Biotechnology from Central University, India. In 2002, she moved to Germany to pursue her PhD and Postdoctoral training at Justus Liebig University, Giessen. From 2011, she is appointed as an independent group leader in the Department of Lung Development and Remodeling at the MPI-HLR, Bad Nauheim, Germany. From 2014, she headed the German Lung Center (DZL) junior research group for pulmonary hypertension. From 2020, she has been appointed as a Full Professor at the Justus Liebig University, Giessen, Germany.

Prof. Dr. Pullamsetti serves as an area leader in the “Excellence Cluster for Cardio Pulmonary System (CPI)”, a program committee member of the American Thoracic Society (ATS), American Heart Association (AHA) 3 CPR council, as an adjunct faculty of Institute for Lung Health (ILH), project leader and member of German Lung Center (DZL), and collaborative research center on lung diseases (UGMLC). Prof. Dr. Pullamsetti published in well-renowned scientific journals such as Nature Medicine, Science Translational Medicine, Journal of Clinical Investigation, American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Circulation, Circulation Research, International Journal of Cardiology and EMBO molecular medicine (Publications list Pullamsetti). She serves as a reviewer for well-renowned scientific journals and numerous national and international funding agencies. Currently she is serving at the editorial board of AJP-Lung, Scientific Reports and Pulmonary Vascular Research Institute (PVRI). She has received various national and international awards for her scientific accomplishments such as Romain Pauwels Research Prize (from European Respiratory Society (ERS)), Research Excellence Award (from German Respiratory Society) and Investigator Award at 5th World Symposium on PH.