Prof. Dr. Esther Mahabir-Brenner
Education and professional career
since 02/2023: Head of Comparative Medicine and Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ARTs), Center for Molecular Medicine Cologne, University of Cologne (CMMC)
2009 - 2023: Head of Comparative Medicine and Central Animal Facility, Center for Molecular Medicine Cologne, University of Cologne (CMMC)
2020: Professor extraordinarius
2013: Umhabilitation, Faculty of Medicine, University of Cologne, Cologne for Laboratory Animal Science
2010: Habilitation and Venia Legendi, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich, for Laboratory Animal Science
2001 - 2009: Head of the Working Group „Reproductive Biology and Microbiology“, “Mouse Core Unit”, Department of Comparative Medicine, Helmholtz Centre Munich, German Research Centre for Environmental Health
1999 - 2000: Head of the Working Group „Reproductive Biotechnology“, Institute for Animal Breeding Science, Friedrich-Wilhelm-University, Bonn
1999: PhD Thesis, Department of Reproduction and Biotechnology, Institute for Animal Breeding and Genetics, Georg-August University, Göttingen
Awards, distinctions and professional activities
2020: Presentation Award at the 15th Deutscher Wirbelsäulenkongress (DWG)
2001: Poster Award, 39. Wissenschaftliche Tagung der GV-SOLAS, Ulm
1999: Poster Award, 32. Wissenschaftliche Tagung über Physiologie und Pathologie der Fortpflanzung, Hannover
1992-1999: Full Scholarship, Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD)
1991: University of the West Indies Silver Gilt Medal for best academic performance and University of the West Indies Shannon Prize for Animal Health
1988-1992: Full Scholarship, University of the West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago
since 2019: Vice Chair of the Working Party on Health, GV-SOLAS
since 2018: Expert Committee of the National Centre for Risk Assessment (BfR), Berlin
since 2016: Member, American Association for Laboratory Animal Sciences (AALAS)
2015 - 2023: Member, Committee for Animal Welfare, University of Cologne
since 2010: Member, International Society for Transgenic Technologies (ISTT)
since 2010: Member, Scientific committees for the GV-SOLAS Conferences
2008 - 2009: Member, Committee for Animal Experimentation and Husbandry, Helmholtz Centre Munich
since 2006: Member, Working Party on Health, GV-SOLAS
since 2001: Member, Society for Laboratory Animal Science=Gesellschaft für Versuchstierkunde (GV-SOLAS)
1999 - 2000:Member, Society for Reproduction
since 2006: Ad hoc reviewer for various scientific journals including Laboratory Animals, Journal of the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science (JAALAS), Lab Animal, Animals, Theriogenology, Reproduction in Domestic Animals, Biomolecules, Biotechniques, Reviews in Virology, Archives of Diseases in Childhood