Jan-Gerrit Johns joined the LIED and the Research Training Group (RTG) in October 2016 to work on his medical thesis.

Title of the medical thesis: The selection, expression and characterisation of human monoclonal autoantibodies against non-desmoglein-antigens by using the Pemphigus vulgaris-phagelibrary PV3a.

He finished his studies in 2020 and currently works as a physician in Bremen.