Rixa Woitschach

Rixa Woitschach is a Functional Senior Physician and Medical Specialist in Human Genetics at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE), affiliated with the Faculty of Medicine. She holds positions in the Center for Obstetrics and Pediatrics and the Department of Human Genetics at the Outpatient Center. Her research focuses on genetic disorders, including cardiomyopathies, congenital limb malformations, and hereditary vascular diseases, leveraging genomic sequencing and molecular diagnostics. She actively contributes to clinical and research initiatives addressing rare genetic conditions and their molecular mechanisms. Dr. Woitschach is reachable at r.woitschach@uke.de and located at N22, 1st Floor, Room 130.

Her key research interests include the genetic basis of cardiac and skeletal disorders, syndrome characterization (e.g., Snijders Blok-Campeau syndrome), and translational applications of genomic data. Recent publications highlight her work on LMNA mutations in sudden cardiac death, CHD3 cohort studies, and aortopathy gene panels. She collaborates with interdisciplinary teams to advance diagnostic approaches and patient care in genetic medicine.