University training and degree

2002

Approbation as Medical Doctor

2000

State Exam in Human Medicine

1993-2000

Studies of Human Medicine, JLU Giessen

Advanced academic qualifications

2001

Doctorate (Dr. med) JLU-Giessen

Postgraduate professional career

Since 2017

Director, Institute for Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine, University Clinic Dresden, TU Dresden

2014-2017

Professor (W3) and Head, Department of Clinical Pathobiochemistry at the Institute for Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine, University Clinic Carl Gustav Carus, TU Dresden

2010-2014

Associate Professor (W2) at the Medical Clinic III, University Clinic Carl Gustav Carus, TU Dresden

2005-2010

Tenure-Track Principal Investigator and Head of the Inflammation Biology Section, Experimental Immunology Branch, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA

2002-2004

Resident physician, Department of Internal Medicine I, University Clinic Heidelberg

2000-2002

Intern, Department of Internal Medicine and research associate, Institute for Biochemistry, University Giessen

Additional Information

Editorships:

Section Editor, Thrombosis Haemostasis, 2016-; Journal of Innate Immunity, 2017-

Service on scientific advisory boards:

2009: Member of the Cancer Advisory Board (Advisory Board to the Scientific Director of the National Cancer Institute, NIH, Bethesda, MD)

Awards:

Calls:
Chair for Experimental Biomedicine, University of Heidelberg (W3, 2009);
Chair for Molecular Cardiovascular Research, RWTH Aachen (W3, 2012);
Chair Clinical Biochemistry and Pathobiochemistry, University Würzburg (W3, 2012);
Chair for Vascular Inflammation and Immunometabolism, Department of Medicine, Imperial College of Medicine, London, UK (2012);
Moncrief Arnott Chair for Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh (2016);
Chair for Laboratory Medicine, University Leipzig (W3, 2018)
Awards:
European Society for Clinical Investigation, Award for Excellence in Translational Research, 2012
Otto-Hahn-Prize of the Max-Planck-Society, 2001
Hauss-Prize of the German Society for Atherosclerosis Research, 2004
Gotthard-Schettler-Prize of the “Deutsche Gesellschaft für Angiologie”, 2003
Oskar-Lapp-Prize of the “Deutsche Gesellschaft für Kardiologie, Herz- und Kreislaufforschung”, 2003
Dr. Herbert Stolzenberg-Prize of the Justus-Liebig University Giessen, 2003
Honors:
David Pyke and Peter Watkins Visiting Professor in Diabetes and Endocrinology at King’s College Hospital London, 2014

Reviewer for

amongst others: American Journal of Respiratory Cell and Molecular Biology; Arteriosclerosis Thrombosis and Vascular Biology; Arthritis and Rheumatism; Blood; Cancer Research; Cell Metabolism; Cell Reports; Circulation; Circulation Research; Diabetes; Diabetologia; EMBO Journal; EMBO Molecular Medicine; EMBO Reports; FASEB Journal; Haematologica, 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; Leukemia; Molecular Biology of the Cell; Molecular and Cellular Biology; Nature Communications; Nature Immunology; Nature Medicine; Nature Reviews Drug Discovery, Nature Reviews Immunology; Nature Reviews Microbiology; New England Journal of Medicine; PLOS Pathogens; PNAS; Thrombosis Haemostasis