Dr. Felix Köhler - Curriculum Vitae
Education and Professional Career
since 2024: Member of the executive board of the Junior Faculty Club of the University of Cologne representing the Faculty of Medicine
since 2024: Visiting Researcher, Dept. of Internal Medicine (Nephrology) & Einthoven Laboratory of Vascular and Regenerative Medicine led by Prof. A. Rabelink, MD, PhD, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
since 2023: Cologne Clinician Scientist Program (CCSP), Faculty of Medicine, University of Cologne. Funded by the German Research Foundation (Project No. 413543196)
since 2019: Clinical scientist program, Kidney Research Center Cologne, Dept. II of Internal Medicine, Center for Molecular Medicine Cologne (CMMC) and Cologne Excellence Cluster for Aging and Aging-Associated Diseases (CECAD) led by Univ.-Prof. Dr. med. T. Benzing, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Cologne, Germany
since 2019: Resident physician, Dept. II of Internal Medicine, University Hospital Cologne; Germany
2015 – 2019: Dr. med. in Translational Research, Univ.-Prof. Dr. med. O. Cornely, Cologne Excellence Cluster for Aging and Aging-Associated Diseases (CECAD), University of Cologne, Germany
2012 – 2018: Studies of Medicine, University of Cologne, Germany
Awards, Distinctions and Scientific Activities
2024: Young Investigator Award of the German Society of Internal Medicine (DGIM)
since 2024: Member of the NephroFuture Class of 2024 of the German Society of Nephrology
2021 – 2022: Gerok-Position of the Cologne Excellence Cluster for Aging and Aging-Associated Diseases (CECAD), Germany
2020: DZIF Doctoral Candidate Award of the German Society for Infectious Diseases (DGI)
2020 – 2021: Gerok-Position of the Medical Faculty of the University of Cologne, Germany
2012 – 2018: Deutschlandstipendium of the Federal Ministry of Research and Education (BMBF)
Engagement in the Research System
- Deputy spokesman of the Cologne Clinician Scientist Program (CCSP)
- Ad hoc reviewer for international journals, including Nature Communications, Naunyn-Schmiedeberg's Archives of Pharmacology, Mycoses and Frontiers in Public Health