Curriculum Vitae
Profession
2004 – 2012 Senior Principal Investigator( tenured, Section on Neurogenetics; National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
1997 – 2004 Principal Investigator, Section on Neurogenetics; Section on Murine Genetics; National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
Postoctoral Training
1994 – 1997 Postdoctoral Fellow, The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, ME, USA
1994 Postdoctoral Fellow, Max-Planck-Institute of Immunobiology, Freiburg, Germany
Education
2013 - 2016 Juris Doctor, J.D. Mitchell Hamline School of Law, Saint Paul, MN. USA. graduated magna cum laude;
1990 - 1994 Doctorate in Molecular Biology, University of Freiburg, Germany
Laboratory of Karl-Heinz Klempnauer, Max-Planck-Institute of Immunobiology, Freiburg, Germany. graduated magna cum laude;
1984 - 1990 Diplom in Biology, University of Heidelberg, Germany
Laboratory of Thomas L. Roszman, University of Kentucky, KY, USA
1981 - 1984 Diplom in Nursing, Heinrich-Lanz-Hospital, Mannheim, Germany
1981 - 1982 Civil Service, Heinrich-Lanz-Hospital, Mannheim, Germany
1978 - 1980 Novitiate of Society of Jesu (SJ), Nürnberg, Germany
1978 Abitur, Eduard-Spranger-Gymnasium, Landau, Germany
Awards
2005 Nomination for the NIH Distinguished Mentor Award
2002 Special Act or Service Award, National Institute of Health, USA
1995 Research Stipend from the German Research Foundation
1992 Travel award from Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds
1988 Heidelberg Scholarship to conduct research at the University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY USA
Professional Activities
2004 Member of the Genetics Society of America (GSA)
2002 Member of the Mammalian Genome Society (MGS)
2002 Member of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology (ARO)
1999-2003 Member of Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee NINDS/NIDCD
1994 - 2011 ad hoc reviewer of
Science, Nature Medicine, Nature Genetics, Nature Communications, PlosOne,
Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology, Genomics, Hearing Research,
PNAS USA, Trends in Biochemical Sciences, Journal of Medical Genetics,
Trends in Molecular Medicine, Journal of Neuroscience, American Journal of Human Genetics,
Human Molecular Genetics, Plos Genetics,
2000 – 2011 ad hoc reviewer of NIH Study Sections
Patents
2000 United States Patent 6114502
Gene family associated with neurosensory defects
1998 United States Patent 5776762
Obesity associated genes
1998 United States Patent 5770432
Obesity associated genes
Research Interest
Molecular genetics of hearing, modifiers, polygenic inheritance;