Dr. Felix Köhler - Curriculum Vitae
Education and Professional Career
since 2026: CAP Awardee at the CMMC
since 2026: Research Group Leader, Kidney Research Center Cologne, Department II of Internal Medicine, Center for Molecular Medicine Cologne (CMMC) and Cologne Excellence Cluster for Aging and Aging-Associated Diseases (CECAD)
2026: Board certification in Internal Medicine and Nephrology
since 2026: Co-Founder, Chief Scientific Officer (CSO), and Chief Medical Officer (CMO) Sulfogenis AG
2025: Additional designation in Lipidology DGFL
since 2024: Member of the executive board of the Junior Faculty Club of the University of Cologne representing the Faculty of Medicine
2024-2026: Visiting Researcher, Department 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
2023-2026: Cologne Clinician Scientist Program (CCSP), Faculty of Medicine, University of Cologne. Funded by the German Research Foundation (Project No. 413543196)
2019-2026: Postdoctoral Fellow, Kidney Research Center Cologne, Department 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
2019-2026: Assistant physician, Department II of Internal Medicine, University Hospital Cologne; Germany
2015-2019: Doctorate. 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
2025: Young Investigator Award of the German Society of Internal Medicine (DGIM)
2024-2026: Member of the NephroFuture Class of 2024 of the German Society of Nephrology (DGfN)
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