Academic education and scientific degrees

2012

Specialist in Internal Medicine

2001

Dr. med. University of Giessen, Germany (Mentor: Prof. K.T. Preissner)

1993-2000

Medicine, University of Giessen, Germany

Academic and research positions

Since 2014

W3-Professor and Head, Department of Clinical Pathobiochemistry, Medical Faculty, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany

2010-2014

W2-Professor for Vascular Inflammation, Diabetes and Kidney, Department of Internal Medicine III, Medical Faculty, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany

2005-2010

Principal Investigator and Head of the Inflammation Biology Section, Experimental Immunology Branch, NCI, NIH, Bethesda, USA

2002-2004

Resident physician and Group leader, Department of Internal
Medicine I, University Clinic Heidelberg, Germany

2000-2002

Intern, Third Department of Internal Medicine and affiliated research fellow, Institute for Biochemistry, University Giessen, Germany

Additional information

Memberships

Elected member of the Henry Kunkel Society for Immunology Research
Faculty member of the Dresden International Graduate School for Biomedicine and Bioengineering
Faculty of the Paul-Langerhans Institute for Diabetes Research, Dresden
Member of the Board and Leader of RAC B (Diabetes Research) of DFG Excellence Cluster Center for Regenerative Therapies Dresden; Gesellschaft für Thrombose- und Hämostaseforschung
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Klinische Chemie und Laboratoriumsmedizin
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Innere Medizin

Awards

Young Investigator Award, “European Atherosclerosis Society”, 1999
DAAD-Prize of the Justus-Liebig University Giessen, 1999
Otto-Hahn-Prize of the Max-Planck-Society, 2001
Förderpreis für Nachwuchswissenschaftler of the “Gesellschaft für Thrombose- und Hämostaseforschung“, 2002
Dr. Herbert Stolzenberg-Prize of the Justus-Liebig University Giessen, 2003
Gotthard-Schettler-Prize of the “Deutsche Gesellschaft für Angiologie”, 2003
Oskar-Lapp-Prize of the “Deutsche Gesellschaft für Kardiologie, Herz- und Kreislaufforschung”, 2003
Hauss-Prize of the German Society for Atherosclerosis Research, 2004
Alexander-Schmidt Prize of the “Gesellschaft für Thrombose-und Hämostaseforschung”, 2005
European Society for Clinical Investigation Award for Excellence in Translational Research 2012
David Pyke and Peter Watkins Visiting Professor in Diabetes and Endocrinology at King’s College Hospital London, 2014

Reviewer for

National Science Foundation USA; Swiss Cancer League; Cancer Research UK; DFG; French National Research Agency; Austrian Science Fund; Health Research Board Ireland; Dutch Diabetes Research Foundation;
American Journal of Respiratory Cell and Molecular Biology; Arteriosclerosis Thrombosis and Vascular Biology; Arthritis and Rheumatism; BBA-Molecular Cell Research; Blood; Cancer Research; Circulation; Circulation Research; Diabetes; Diabetologia; EMBO Journal; EMBO Molecular Medicine; EMBO Reports; European Journal of Immunology; FASEB Journal; Immunity; Journal of Clinical Investigation; Journal of Experimental Medicine; Journal of Immunology; Journal of Infectious Diseases; Journal of Leukocyte Biology; Journal of the National Cancer Institute; Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis; Molecular Biology of the Cell; Molecular and Cellular Biology; Nature Communications; Nature Immunology; Nature Medicine; Nature Reviews Immunology; Nature Reviews Microbiology; New England Journal of Medicine; PLOS Pathogens; PNAS; Thrombosis Haemostasis