CURRICULUM VITAE
PERSONAL INFORMATION
NameGregor Theilmeier
AdressExp-ANIT Entzündung
Institute of Anatomy
University of Münster
Vesaliusweg 2-4
48149 Münster
telephone: 0049 - 251 – 8356498
fax:8355241
EDUCATION:
4/1987: Matriculation at the Medical School WWU Münster, Germany.
Boards: 1995: III. Staatsexamen (graduation)
1996Doctoral thesis (MD)
9/2003Board Examination Anesthesiology
10/2003Habilitation (equiv. to PhD)
Research and Clinical Experience:
1990-1993:Member of the group of Professor Dr. W. Zidek at the department for Internal Medicine D, WWU Münster.
1993-1994:Visiting Research Fellow, Stanford University Medical School, Center for Cardiovascular Research, Division of Cardiology and Vascular Medicine, Professor Dr. J. Cooke
1995-1996:Internship, University Hospital Münster
1997-2000: Postdoctoral fellow, Center for Molecular and Vascular Biology, KU Leuven
Chairman. Prof. Dr. D.Collen
1996-2003:Anesthesiology residency, Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, University Hospital Münster, Chair: Prof. Dr. H. Van Aken
since 2000Group Leader of the research group "Exp-ANIT-Entzündung" with the goal to identify strategies to modulate post-ischemic myocardial inflammation to ameliorate cardiac wound healing and functional recovery
since 2002Staff Anesthesiologist, Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, University Hospital Münster
since 2003 Attending physician, Cardiothoracic Anesthesia & General Anesthesia
since 2003Cross appointment Institute of Anatomy, University of Münster
Professional Societies
since1998North American Vascular Biology Organization
2000International Anesthesia Research Society
2000German Society for Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine
2001European Society of Anesthesiology
AWARDS AND SCHOLARSHIPS:
1989 - 1995 Scholar of the German National Scholarship Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes)
8-12/1993: Award, German National Scholarship
Foundation
1994 - 1995: Scholar of the Daimler-Benz-Foundation for student research projects abroad
1995: Young Investigator Award of the AHA Council
for Circulation and Vascular Wall Biology
1/97 - 6/98Postdoctoral fellowship, Institute for Innovative Medical Research, School of Medicine Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster
7/98- 6/00Postdoctoral fellowship, Deutsche
Forschungsgemeinschaft
2000:Meriterious Award, NAVBO
2005: August Wilhelm und Liselotte Becht-Award
German Foundation for Cardiovascular Research
Structure of the research group Exp-ANIT-Entzündung:
The research activities of our group relate largely to identification of modulators of inflammation in tissues following transient ischemia or hypoxia. We have been working on the role of the urokinase receptor as well as the lectin-like domain of thrombomodulin with respect to their potential to reduce reperfusion injury while allowing for better regeneration of the damaged tissue. Our focus has mainly been the heart but we are moving on to global ischemia with the ensuing systemic inflammatory response syndrome related to cardiac arrest. The group consists of 4 postdoctoral fellows, 6 technicians and several medical students. Half of the staff is financed through peer reviewed grants. In the center of our activities we utilize clinically relevant mouse models of human diseases like myocardial infarction, cardiac arrest and resuscitation, cardiac hypertrophy and atherosclerosis. The animals are examined with respect to their functional recovery using echocardiography, PET, ECG, blood pressure measurements and parameters for organ function. We then characterize the cellular response to the lack of certain gene products immunohistochemically, biochemically and with a broad range of molecular biology techniques. We express molecules of interest as recombinant proteins which we characterize in invitro assays of leukocyte adhesion as well as in our animal models with respect to their therapeutic potential.
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