Team – PIs
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PD Dr. Bernhard Schermer
Tel.: +49 221 47889030 |
Bernhard Schermer is Senior Investigator and Head of the Nephrolab Cologne. Schermer received his MD at the University of Frankfurt under the supervision of Rudi Busse, Department of Cardiovascular Physiology. As research fellow at Harvard Medical School, Boston, and as postdoctoral fellow in Freiburg he focused on hereditary kidney diseases, signal transduction and cilia biology. In 2004 Bernhard Schermer became Senior Investigator in the lab of Thomas Benzing at the University of Freiburg. Together with the Benzing lab in 2007 Bernhard Schermer moved to Cologne where he is Assistant Professor at the Department of Medicine and Vice-Director of the Kidney Research Center Cologne. | |
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Prof. Dr. Thomas Benzing
Tel.: +49 221 4784480 |
Thomas Benzing is Professor of Medicine and Chairman of the Department of Medicine IV at the University of Cologne. Benzing received his MD and clinical training at the University of Freiburg, Germany. During his postdoctoral research at the Institute of Cardiovascular Physiology, University of Frankfurt and at Harvard Medical School, Boston, he focused on various aspects of signaling in kidney disease. Starting in 2000, Benzing became group leader, Associate Professor, and in 2006 Full Professor of Medicine at the University of Freiburg. He was Vice-Chief of the Renal Division, University of Freiburg, and founding director of the Center for Systems Biology Freiburg (ZBSA). In 2007 Professor Benzing and his team moved to Cologne where Benzing is Chairman of the Department of Medicine IV and Director of the Kidney Research Center Cologne. |