“We need more Gerok positions”! This is one of the conclusions that Prof. Dr. Robert Thimme noted in a section (p.11)  on the need for more freedom and space for research in medical qualification phases (German title: “Qualifizierungsphase: Freiraum gefragt”). This appeared in a special volume of duz, a German […]

Cooperation between specialists is clearly crucial for gaining excellent results in the laboratory, and without these, there is no foundation for meaningful change in patient care. However, a deep and connected understanding of all the entities involved and the ability to communicate this understanding are also crucial in the process […]

A collaboration of FOR 2240 project 6 „Microglia in AMD“ (Principal Investigator Prof.  Thomas Langmann) and the Bayer-University of Cologne Graduate Program of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics (PhD student Anika Lückoff), together with neuro-immunology experts from Freiburg (Prof. Marco Prinz) and Hannover (Prof. Ulrich Kalinke), identified a novel role of […]

Heping Xu (MD, PhD) is Professor of Ocular Immunology in the Centre for Experimental Medicine at Queen’s University Belfast, UK. He was trained as an ophthalmologist and together with his former teacher and colleague John Forrester, he developed the concept of para-inflammation, a predisposing condition for many age-related diseases of […]

The Department of Ophthalmology at the University of Cologne was the proud host of Dr. Oliver W. Gramlich, Ph.D. from the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences and The Stephen A. Wynn Institute for Vision Research at the University of Iowa, USA. On Thursday, January 28th, 2016, Prof. Cursiefen (right), […]

Laborjournal recently published a list of the top 50 most-cited ophthalmologists in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. Researchers and clinicians were included in the list. Four individuals from the Dept. of Ophthalmology at the University of Cologne were in the top 50: Prof. Cursiefen, Prof. Kirchhof, Prof. Bachmann and Prof. Fauser. […]

The FOR 2240 research unit now has two international scholars on board: Ms. Yanghong Hou, MD, from China and Mr. Viet Nhat Hung Le, MD, from Vietnam. Ms. Hou did her undergraduate work in Medicine (Bachelor) and Ophthalmology (Master) at Tongji University in her hometown of Shanghai and is working […]

Lymph-angiogenesis expert Kari Alitalo, a world-leading and widely cited cancer researcher who is now Director of the Wihuri Research Institute in Helsinki, Finland, addressed a lively audience on January 27th, 2016 on the topic of “Novel roles of lymphatics in the eye, the brain and in tumor metastasis”. The talk […]

On Dec. 14, 2015, the DFG announced that Prof. Dr. Sascha Fauser, Dept. of Ophthalmology, University of Cologne and one of twelve principle investigators in the DFG research unit FOR 2240, is to receive additional clinical study funding. The study is concerned with proliferative vitreoretinopathy (PVR), which is the major […]