Visiting Professor Alexander Steinkasserer, Erlangen-Nuremberg

Lecture Hall, Dept. of Ophthalmology (Building 34, Augenklinik), University of Cologne Kerpener Str. 62, Cologne, NRW, Germany

Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Alexander Steinkasserer is the Head of the Immune Modulation Department at the University Hospital Erlangen, Friedrich Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, and is a professor there. He completed his studies in biology at Innsbruck and earned a PhD degree and Habilitation status from the University of Vienna. […]

Visiting Professor Reza Dana

Lecture Hall, Dept. of Ophthalmology (Building 34, Augenklinik), University of Cologne Kerpener Str. 62, Cologne, NRW, Germany

Professor Reza Dana, M.D., Ph.D., is a cornea expert and ocular immunologist. He is the Claes Dohlman Chair in Ophthalmology, the Director of the Cornea Service and leader of a translational research program at Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, and a Senior Scientist at the Schepens Research Institute (all Harvard […]

Visiting Scientist SriniVas R. Sadda, MD

Lecture Hall, Dept. of Ophthalmology (Building 34, Augenklinik), University of Cologne Kerpener Str. 62, Cologne, NRW, Germany

Dr. Sadda is President & Chief Scientific Officer of the  Doheny Eye Institute in Los Angeles CA, USA. He is an internationally recognized expert in the area of retinal imaging. In 2006, he founded the Doheny Image Reading Center (DIRC). With over 80 employees, it is the largest in the […]

Visiting Professor Przemyslaw (Mike) Sapieha from Montreal, Canada

Lecture Hall, Dept. of Ophthalmology (Building 34, Augenklinik), University of Cologne Kerpener Str. 62, Cologne, NRW, Germany

Dr. Mike (Przemyslaw) Sapieha is the director of the Neurovascular Eye Disease Lab at the Maisonneuve-Rosemont Hospital Research Centre (HMR - RC) and holds the Wolfe Professorship in translational vision research and a Canada Research Chair in retinal cell biology. He is an associate professor in the departments of Ophthalmology […]

Visiting Professor Christiana Ruhrberg

CECAD research center auditorium, ground floor (Building 69, room EG.036) Joseph-Stelzmann-Str. 26, Cologne, NRW, Germany

Professor Christiana Ruhrberg is an internationally known expert in neuronal and vascular development and one of the world’s leading researchers in defining mechanisms of blood vessel growth in the brain and eye. Her three main interests are neurovascular co-patterning, molecular regulation of angiogenesis, and signal transduction in vascular hyperpermeability. She […]

Visiting Scientist Ilva Rupenthal, PhD

Lecture Hall, Dept. of Ophthalmology (Building 34, Augenklinik), University of Cologne Kerpener Str. 62, Cologne, NRW, Germany

Dr. Rupenthal is an innovator in ocular drug delivery ideas. Her current research, co-funded by a Sir Charles Hercus Health Research Fellowship from the New Zealand Health Research Council, focuses predominantly on the development of stimuli-response ocular drug delivery systems with projects investigating implants responsive to ultrasound, light or a […]

Visiting Professor Kazuichi Maruyama

Lecture Hall, Dept. of Ophthalmology (Building 34, Augenklinik), University of Cologne Kerpener Str. 62, Cologne, NRW, Germany

Prof. Maruyama will give a talk on "Comprehensive analysis of vitreous specimens for uveitis classification". This lecture will have a clinical orientation. In addition to his Osaka position, he is a part time Assistant Professor in the Department of Ophthalmology, Kyoto Prefecutal University of Medicine, Japan, and  Adjunct Scientist at […]

Visiting Professor François Paquet-Durand

Center for Pharmacology, Building 36, seminar room 1st floor Gleueler Str. 24, Cologne, NRW, Germany

Prof. Paquet-Durand is Assistant Professor at the Institute for Ophthalmic Research, University of Tübingen and Chief Scientific Officer of Mireca Medicines GmbH. His talk will be on: "Targeting cGMP-signalling in inherited retinal degeneration: from basic research to clinical translation, Founding of Drugsford" This talk is hosted by the Bayer Graduate […]

Visiting Professor Akiyoshi Uemura

Lecture Hall, Dept. of Ophthalmology (Building 34, Augenklinik), University of Cologne Kerpener Str. 62, Cologne, NRW, Germany

Akiyoshi Uemura (MD, PhD) is Professor at the Department of Retinal Vascular Biology at Nagoya City University, Japan. His three recent papers published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation and a seminal report in Cancer Cell highlight the function of important vascular factors and pericytes for retinal and tumor angiogenesis. […]

Prof. Natasha Frank

Center for Molecular Medicine Cologne, CMMC Research Center (Building 66) Robert-Koch-Straße 21, Cologne, NRW, Germany

As a part of the CMMC‘s seminar series, Prof. Frank‘s lecture on "ABCB5-positive stem cells in development and regeneration" will  concern her laboratory research work on identifying clinically relevant stem cell populations in diverse human tissues, with special emphasis on the relevant role of the ATP-binding cassette transporter ABCB5, which […]