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Contact
Lab: | Prof. Dr. Michael Köttgen |
Department: | Department of Medicine Renal Division - ZKF |
Address: | Breisacherstr. 66 79106 Freiburg |
Phone: | +49 761 270 32990 (office) |
E-mail: | This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it |
Lab homepage: | www.nephrolab.org/groups/michael-koettgen/ |
PhD positions available: | YES |
Research Area: | Molecular Medicine |
Research Interests: | Physiological and pathological functions of proteins involved in monogenic and complex genetic diseases, polycystic kidney disease, gout, TRP channels, calcium signaling, biology of cilia. |
CV
Education & Training: | 1997 M.D., School of Medicine, Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg, Germany 1997 Doctoral degree in Physiology, Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg, Germany Dissertation: pH regulation in colon carcinoma cells (summa cum laude) 1997 Visiting scientist (3 months), Cellular and Molecular Physiology (Yale University, Dr. G. Giebisch, advisor) |
Employment & Experience: | 1997-1998 Residency, Department of Nephrology, University Hospital Freiburg (Dr.P.Schollmeyer) 1998-2000 Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute of Physiology, University of Freiburg(Dr.R.Greger, advisor) 2000-2004 Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Nephrology, University Hospital Freiburg (Dr. G. Walz, advisor) 2004-2007 Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Biological Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore (Dr. C. Montell/ Dr. T. Watnick, advisors) 2007-2009 Research Associate/Junior Faculty – Department of Biological Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore 2009 Offers for tenure track faculty positions in the Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Case Western Reserve University and in the Department of Nephrology, University of Maryland (declined). 2010 Adjunct Professor, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA – Department of Nephrology 2/2010 Professor (W3, position accepted), University Hospital Freiburg, Germany – Department of Nephrology |
Scientific Activities: | Editorial activities Ad hoc reviewer: Nature, Cell, Nature Genetics, Nature Cell Biology, Nature Neuroscience, PNAS, EMBO Journal, EMBO Reports, FASEB Journal, Development, Pflugers Archive, ... Reviewer: DFG, Swiss National Science Foundation, National Kidney Foundation-USA, Department of Defense, ASBS, USA. Associate Editor: Nephron Physiology |
Honors
Honors and Awards: | 1997 Award of the Scientific Society Freiburg for the best doctoral thesis |
Publications
Selected Publications: | Hofherr A, Wagner C, Watnick T, Köttgen M. (2016) Targeted rescue of a polycystic kidney disease mutation by lysosomal inhibition. Kidney Int. doi:10.1016/j.kint.2015.11.015 Abstract * equal contribution |
SGBM PhD students
SGBM PhD students: | Suraj Patil (since November 2020)
Alumni
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