Center for Molecular Medicine Cologne

Jun.-Prof. Dr. Dr. Miguel A Alejandre Alcazar - Curriculum Vitae

Education and Professional Career

since 2020: Associated Researcher, Cluster of Excellence for Cellular Stress Responses in Aging-Associated Diseases (CECAD), Cologne
since 2020: Head of the Research Group Parenchymal and Vascular Lung Remodeling, Institute for Lung Health (ILH), member of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Justus-Liebig University Giessen
since 2016: Assistant Professor for Translational Experimental Pediatrics, Department of Pediatrics, University Hospital Cologne, Germany
since 2015: Head of research group Experimental Pulmonology, Department of Pediatrics, University Hospital Cologne, Germany
2015: Visiting instructor, Vera Moulton Wall Center for Pulmonary Vascular Diseaes, Department of Pediatrics (Neonatology), Stanford University School of Medicine, USA
2012 - 2014: DFG-Research fellowship, postdoctoral  fellow, Rabinovitch-Bland laboratory, Cardiovascular Research Center, Stanford University
2012: M.D. thesis (Dr. med.): University of Gießen Lung Center, Med. Klinik II, JLU Gießen, Prof. Dr. O. Eickelberg, Dr. R. Morty - magna cum laude
2012: Ph.D. thesis (Dr. nat. med): Center of Molecular Medicine Cologne (CMMC), Department of Pediatrics, University Hospital Cologne, Prof. Dr. J. Dötsch - summa cum laude
2010 - 2012: Ph.D. student, Interdisciplinary Program of Molecular Medicine (IPMM), Center of Molecular Medicine Cologne (CMMC), Department of Pediatric, University Hospital Cologne, Germany
2009 - 2010: Resident, University Children’s Hospital Erlangen, Germany
2009: Research fellow, group Prof. Dötsch, University Children’s Hospital Erlangen, Germany
2006 - 2009: Resident, University Children’s Hospital Erlangen, Germany
1999 - 2006: Medical School: Justus-Liebig University Gießen (Germany), Facultad de Medicina Granada (Spain), University of Toronto (Canada), Mount Sinai School of Medicine New York (USA)

Awards, distinctions and professional activities

2017: Jürgen Bierich Award, German Society for Pediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes (DGKED)
2015: Scientific Research Award, German Society for Neonatology Pediatric and Intensive Care Medicine (GNPI)
2015: Scientific Abstract Award, American Thoracic Society (ATS)
2015: American Thoracic Society (ATS) Scholarship
2014: Pediatric Academy of Pediatrics (PAS) Travel award
2012: Research Fellowship, German Society of Pediatric Pulmonology (GPP)
2012: Selma-Meyer Dissertation’s-Award of the German Society of Pediatrics (DGKJ)

Publications

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