Dr. Thomas Clahsen - Curriculum Vitae
Education and professional career
since 2024: Principal investigator in CRC 1607 Towards immunomodulatory and anti(lymph)angiogenic therapies for age-related blinding eye diseases
since 2018: Principal investigator at the Department of Ophthalmology, University of Cologne, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Cologne (Prof. Dr. C. Cursiefen)
since 2016: Postdoctoral research fellow at the Department of Ophthalmology, University of Cologne, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Cologne (Prof. Dr. C. Cursiefen)
2008 - 2015: Postdoctoral research fellow at the Department of Pediatrics, University Medical Center of the RWTH Aachen University (Prof. Dr. N. Wagner)
2009: Dissertation at the Faculty of Science of RWTH Aachen University (summa cum laude)
2003 - 2008: PhD thesis at the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (Prof. Dr. P. C. Heinrich), Medical School of the RWTH Aachen University, group of apl. Prof. Dr. Fred Schaper
2002 - 2003: Diploma thesis at the Institute of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (Prof. Dr. P.C. Heinrich), Medical School of the RWTH Aachen University, group of PD Dr. Fred Schaper
1996 - 2003: Studies of Biology at the RWTH-Aachen University
Awards, distinctions and professional activities
2022: DOG start-up funding for DFG application
2019: Best Paper Award - Highlights in Translational Science: Cornea and Limbus
2019: DOG-Patent Price
2019 Member of the German Ophthalmologic Society (DOG)
2017: Member of the Association of Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO)
2014: Member of the German Society of Immunology (DGfI)
2010: Borchersplakette
2008: Travel Grant 12th Joint Meeting: Signal Transduction: Receptors, Mediators and Genes
2008: Member of the Signal Transduction Society (STS)