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)

2014 - 2024 Freigeist Fellowship - Volkswagen Foundation
2016 - 2021 ERC Starting Grant Investigator
2012 - Human Frontiers Science Program (HFSP) – Postdoctoral Fellowship
2011 - Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) – “Prospective Researchers” Postdoctoral Fellowship abroad grant
2011 - EMBO – long term fellowship – declined
2006 - NCCR - “Frontiers in Genetics” PhD fellowship, Geneva, Switzerland

2022 Life and Health- Research Prize 2022 by the University of Bonn, Germany
2021 Patent Award by the German Ophthalmology Society
2017 Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Junior Award, Paul-Ehrlich-Foundation, Germany
2017 TUD Young Investigator award at TU Dresden, Germany
2014 European Society for Gene and Cell Therapy (ESGCT) Young Investigator Award
2012 Faculty of Natural Sciences Prize, University of Basel, Switzerland
2011 Retinitis Pigmentosa – Research Prize from Pro Retina Germany
2011 Junior Debiopharm Group Life Sciences Award, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
2011 Elisabeth Gateff PhD Award from the German Genetics Society, Germany
2011 Ed Fischer Prize for the best PhD thesis at the FMI, Switzerland

Transcription factor-mediated programming of human induced pluripotent stem cells to photoreceptors (2019)) V Busskamp, A Kempe and M Zuzic - EP 3935152B1 (United States: US12448602B2; Japan: JP7743061B2)
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