Dr. Heike Aupperle-Lellbach is a research and diagnostic pathologist at the LABOKLIN, Bad Kissingen, Germany. Since 2023, she has been a guest scientist at the Department of Comparative Experimental Pathology, Institute of Pathology, Technical University of Munich. She graduated from Tierärztliche Hochschule, Hannover, Germany, in 1994. In 1995, she started a doctoral thesis at the Institute of Veterinary-Pathology at the University of Leipzig. From 1997 to 2010, she was a postgraduate assistant. She performed a postdoctoral lecture graduation (habilitation) at the Institute of Veterinary-Pathology at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine in Leipzig (investigation on the role of the extracellular matrix in cardiovascular diseases). In 1999, she achieved the German specialisation as a specialist veterinarian for pathology, and in 2007, she became a specialist veterinarian for honey bees. Since 2010, she has been a private lecturer (PD) at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine in Leipzig.