Chair
- Genome analysis and molecular biology of pediatric kidney tumors
- miRNA processing genes as oncogenic drivers
- epigenetics and chromatin remodelling in tumor formation
- Notch signalling and cardiovascular developmental biology
- mouse models of human disease
- 1979 - 1986 Medical School, Justus-Liebig-University (JLU), Gießen, Fellowship of the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes
- 1982-1986 Doctoral thesis work (Dr. med.) Institut for Virology, JLU Gießen
- 1992 Habilitation (Human Genetics and Molecular Biology), Philipps-University, Marburg
- 1986-1989 Research Fellow in Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School and Research Fellow in Genetics, Children's Hospital, Boston, MA (USA)
- 1990-1993 Research Assistant (Group leader) at the Medical Center for Human Genetics, Philipps-University, Marburg
- 1993-2007 Professor of Physiological Chemistry at the Medical Faculty of the University of Würzburg
- 2002-2007 Speaker, Research training group 639 “Tumorinstability”
- 2004-2013 Board / Vice speaker, Research training group 1048 “Organogenesis”
- 2007-2011 Vice Dean of the Medical Faculty
- since 2008 Chair of Developmental Biochemistry at the Medical Faculty of the University of Würzbu
- since 2011 Dean of Student Affairs for Biomedicine
- Degree Programme Biomedicine, Degree Programme Speaker
- Elite Graduate Programme Translational Medicine (starts summer term 2018), Degree Programme Speaker
- SIOP Renal Tumor Study Group, Chair of Biology Comittee
