Group Leader Prof. Dr. Volker Busskamp

2007 – 2010 PhD in Neuroscience, Friedrich Miescher Institute and University of Basel, Switzerland (Botond Roska)
2006 – 2007 Post graduate diploma in Biology (DEA), University of Geneva, Switzerland
2001 – 2006 Diploma in Biotechnology, Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany

Since 2019 Professor for degenerative retinal diseases (tenured), Department of Ophthalmology, University of Bonn, Germany
2014 – 2021 Research Group Leader and Freigeist Fellow at the Center for Regenerative Therapies Dresden (CRTD), Germany
2011 – 2014 Postdoctoral fellow, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA (George M. Church)
2010 – 2011 Postdoctoral fellow, Friedrich Miescher Institute, Basel, Switzerland (Botond Roska)

2021 - Patent Award by the German Ophthalmology Society
2017 - TUD Young Investigator
2017 - Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Junior Award
2015 - ERC Starting Grant Investigator
2014 - Young Investigator Award from the European Society for Gene and Cell Therapy (ESGCT)
2014 - Freigeist Fellowship - Volkswagen Foundation
2012 - Faculty Prize - University of Basel, Switzerland
2012 - Human Frontiers Science Program (HFSP) – Postdoctoral Fellowship
2011 - "RP - Research Prize" from Pro Retina Germany
2011 - "Ed Fischer Prize" for the best PhD thesis at the Friedrich Miescher Institute
2011 - Elisabeth Gateff-PhD Award by the German Genetics Society
2011 - Junior Life Sciences Award from the Debiopharm Group , Lausanne, Switzerland
2011 - EMBO – long term fellowship – declined
2011 - SNSF – “Prospective Researchers” abroad grant
2010 - shortlisted for a Harvard Society of Fellows Junior Fellowship
2006 - NCCR - “Frontiers in Genetics” PhD fellowship, Geneva, Switzerland

Transcription factor-mediated programming of human induced pluripotent stem cells to photoreceptors (2019-filed) V Busskamp, A Kempe and M Zuzic. (patent without PhD or postdoc supervisor).
Transcription factors controlling differentiation of stem cells (2016), AHM Ng, GM Church and V Busskamp - PCT/US2017/051122, WO2018049382A1
Novel therapeutical tools and methods for treating blindness (2008), D Balya, V Busskamp, P Lagali and B Roska - PCT/EP2009/054562, WO2009127705A1