since 2011: Professor and Chairman for Pathology, University of Cologne
2001 - 2011: Professor and Chairman for Pathology, University of Bonn
1999 - 2001: Full Professor for Pathology (C3), RWTH Aachen
1987 - 1990: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Gene Center Munich and MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston (TX), DFG Fellowship
1979 - 1986: Laureate of the German National Scholarship Foundation, Studies in Medicine and Anthropology in Mainz, Munich (LMU), London (Middlesex) and Cologne
2022: Member of External Scientific Advisory Board, Candiolo Cancer Foundation, Torino (Piemonte)
2021: Co-Founder and Member of Directory Board Gnothis AB Stockholm
2017: Co-Applicant and Director of the National Network Genomic Medicine (nNGM) funded by the DKH
2016: Permanent Member of the Board of Trustees (“Stiftungsrat”) Deutsche Krebshilfe (DKH) e.V.
2016: Innovation Prize NRW for the Network Genomic Medicine2016: Innovation Prize NRW for the Network Genomic Medicine
2016: Co-President of the Joint IAP/ESP Pathology World Congress 2016, Cologne
Since 2015: Executive Board Director, Vladimir Totovic Foundation, German Pathology
2015 - 2017: Short Course “Biomarkers” at USCAP
2015: Grand Round 740, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
2015 - 2017: Short Course “Biomarkers” at USCAP
2011: Member of the Leopoldina, Moguntia, Academy of Sciences NRW
2011: Member of the Advisory Board NCT (Heidelberg), CCC (Leipzig)
2010: Initiation of the Network Genomic Medicine (NGM), together with Jürgen Wolf and Roman Thomas
2010 - 2012: President of the German Division, International Academy of Pathology, Successful Application for the Pathology World Congress in Cologne 2016
since 2009: Executive Board Member, Mildred Scheel Foundation for Cancer Research
since 2007: Speaker of the German Collaborative Research Group KoSAR – Sarcoma Research
2007 - 2009: Dean of the Medical Faculty, University of Bonn Germany
1997 - 2000: Speaker of the DFG Research Group “Programmed Death in Neuronal Systems”
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Prof. Dr. med. Thomas Benzing
Chair of the CMMC
