Visiting Scientist: Heping Xu, Queen’s University Belfast, UK

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

Parainflammation, chronic inflammation and retinal degenerative diseases Heping Xu, MD, PhD, is Professor of Ocular Immunology in the Centre for Experimental Medicine at Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK. The research of his group is centred around three thematic areas: Pathogenesis of age-related macular degeneration Inflammation in diabetic retinopathy Mechanisms […]

Visiting Scientist: Bruce Ksander, Schepens ERI & Harvard

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

ABCB5 is a limbal stem cell gene required for corneal development and repair Dr. Bruce Ksander received his Ph.D. in Immunology from the University of Illinois while studying the immune response to herpes keratitis in the laboratory of Dr. Robert Hendricks at the Illinois Eye & Ear Infirmary. His postdoctoral […]

Visiting Scientist: Dr. Francisco Ambrosio, PhD, U of Coimbra, Portugal

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

Targeting neuroinflammation for the treatment of retinal degenerative diseases? On Wednesday, June 15th 2016 at 16:15, Visiting Scientist Dr. Francisco Ambrosio, PhD from the Institute for Biomedical Imaging and Life Sciences (IBILI) in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Coimbra, Portugal will give a talke on "Targeting neuroinflammation […]

Retreat 2016 Kloster Steinfeld

Neues Gasthaus Kloster Steinfeld Hermann-Josef-Straße 4, Kall-Steinfeld, NRW, Germany

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Visiting Scientist: PD Dr. med. Olaf Penack, Charité Berlin

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

The role of the endothelium in allogeneic transplantations Dr. Olaf Penack is a Senior Physician in the Medical Deptartment of the Division of Hematology, Oncology and Tumor Immunology at Charité Hospital Berlin (Virchow Campus). In this talk, he will discuss the urgent need for novel therapeutic approaches to improve survival […]

Visiting Professor David Hume, Edinburgh

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

Macrophages are specialised cells of the immune system. They are involved not only in infection, inflammatory disease and cancer, but also in normal growth and development and tissue repair.  Three main research questions for  Professor Hume and his team are: 1) on a genome-wide scale, how do macrophages differentiate from […]

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 […]