Dr. Maria Notara - Curriculum Vitae
Education and professional career
since 2024: Principal Investigator CRC1607 ‘Towards immunomodulatory and anti(lymph)angiogenic therapies for age-related blinding eye diseases’
since 2023: Principal Investigator (CAP 15) at the Center for Molecular Medicine Cologne
since 2018: CAP group Leader CMMC: Effects of UV irradiation on corneal angiogenic privilege: pterygium as a UV-induced stem cell disease model: The limbal niche and corneal avascularity
since 2018: Principal Investigator in FOR2240 (lymph)angiogenesis and cellular immunity in inflammatory diseases of the eye
2013 - 2017: ERC Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Ophthalmology, Cologne University Hospital (Prof. Claus Cursiefen)
2012 - 2013: MRC Postdoctoral fellow at Institute of Healthy Ageing, University College London (Laboratory of Dr Daniel Pierce)
2010 - 2012: Prostate Action UK Postdoctoral fellow, Department of Surgery, University College London (Laboratory of Prof. John Masters)
2007 - 2010: MRC Postdoctoral fellow at Institute of Ophthalmology, University College London (Laboratory of Prof. Julie Daniels)
2005 - 2007: BBSRC Postdoctoral fellow at Institute of Ophthalmology, University College London (Laboratory of Prof. Julie Daniels)
2001 - 2005: Ph.D., University of Nottingham
1999 - 2001: Study of Chemical Engineering (Diploma), National Technical University of Athens, Greece
Supplementary Career Information
Maternity Leaves: November 2017 - October 2018 and May 2020 - May 2021
Part-time employed (50%): May 2021 - October 2023
Awards, distinctions and professional activities
since 2023: Review Editor for Stem Cell Research in ‘Frontiers in Genetics’ and ‘Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology’
since 2021: Member of the Editorial Board of the journal ‘Biology’
2019 - 2023: Member of E-COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology) Action CA18116 (https://aniridia-net.eu/about-cost/) Work package 3 co-leader
2015 - 2019: Member of E-COST Action BM1302 -Joining forces in Corneal Regeneration (The Network of Excellence in Corneal Regeneration, www.biocornea.eu)
2009 - 2010: NIHR Biomedical Research Centre for Ophthalmology Award to support translational research initiatives 2008, including travel Scholarship to the New York Stem Cell Foundation (training in iPSC derivation, characterization and maintenance).
Publications