Diversification of cannabis trends – analysis of terpenes and cannabinoids and detection of semi-synthetic cannabinoids in fabric and blood samples

FB09: Institute of Forensic Medicine, Department of Forensic Toxicology, Prof. Dr. Irene Krämer

Poster on the dissertation project

Scientific career
Since 02/2022Scientific doctorate at the Institute of Forensic Medicine, Department of Forensic Toxicology, Mainz University Medical Center
10/2019 – 12/2021M.Sc. Toxicocology, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Master’s thesis: “Stereoselective analysis of the cocaine diluent tetramisole and metabolites with regard to a temporal assessment of cocaine consumption”
09/2018 – 06/2019B.Sc. (Hons) Forensic and Analytical Sciences, Robert Gordon University Aberdeen, Scotland, UK (with distinction ‘Best Performance at Honours Level’)
09/2016 – 07/2019B.Sc. Natural Science Forensics, Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences
Professional experience
Since 02/2022Employment as a research assistant (50 %) at the Institute of Forensic Medicine, University Medical Center Mainz
Awards and grants
09/2024Young Scientist Award of the German Society for Traffic Medicine (DGVM) for the sub-project Differentiating the intake of medicinal cannabis flowers and recreational use of her doctorate
Since 04/2024Junior member of the Gutenberg Academy Fellows Program, Johannes Gutenberg University
winter semester 2017/18 – summer semester 2021Funding through the Deutschlandstipendium
Lectures and conference contributions
03/2023Analysis of Tetramisole Metabolites – Is ‘Aminorex’ found in Forensic Samples of Cocaine Users actually 4-Phenyl-2-imidazolidinone? – Presentation at the XXIII Mosbach Symposium of the GTFCh (Prize for the best presentation at the GTFCh Symposium)
02/2022Chiral pharmacokinetics of tetramisole enantiomers – Enantioselective quantification of levamisole and dexamisole in cocaine seizures and serum samples from cocaine users – Presentation at the spring conference of the German Society of Forensic Medicine (DGRM)
Publications
Hundertmark M, Hess C, Röhrich J, Wunder C, Losacker M. Analysis of tetramisole metabolites – Is “Aminorex” found in forensic samples of cocaine users actually 4-phenyl-2- imidazolidinone? Drug Test Anal. 2023;15(8):865-878. doi:10.1002/dta.3482.
Losacker M, Hundertmark M, Zörntlein S, Röhrich J, Hess C. Chiral pharmacokinetics of tetramisole stereoisomers – Enantioselective quantification of levamisole and dexamisole in serum samples from users of adulterated cocaine. Drug Test Anal. 2022;14(6):1053-1064.