Thomas Jentsch - Curriculum vitae#
- since 2009 Deputy director of Leibniz-Institut für Molekulare Pharmakologie (FMP)
- since 2006 Head, Department of Physiology and Pathology of Ion Transport, Leibniz-Institut für Molekulare Pharmakologie and Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine
- since 2006 Full Professor (W3), Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
- 1995 – 2006 Director, Center for Molecular Neurobiology Hamburg (ZMNH), Hamburg University
- 1993 Full Professor (C4), Molecular Neuropathology, ZMNH
- 1991 Habilitation in Cell Biochemistry, University Medical Center Hamburg
- 1988 – 1993 Research group leader, ZMNH
- 1986 – 1988 Postdoctoral fellow, (with Harvey F. Lodish) at the Whitehead Institute (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Cambridge, Massachusetts
- 1984 M.D. (thesis on pHi-regulating processes; thesis adviser: Prof. Wiederholt), Institute for Clinical Physiology, Freie Universität Berlin (FU)
- 1982 PhD in Physics (thesis on field ionization (surface physics), thesis adviser: Prof. Block); Fritz-Haber-Institute (Max-Planck-Society), Berlin
- 1981 – 1985 Staff scientist (Prof. Wiederholt), Institut für Klinische Physiologie, FU Berlin 1974 – 1980 Studies in Physics, FU Berlin
- 1972 – 1978 Studies in Medicine, FU Berlin
Research fields
Our group is active in the field of physiology and pathology of ion transport with the major areas:
- Cellular and molecular mechanisms of neurodegeneration, epilepsy, sensory biology
- Cell biology and (patho) physiology of cell volume regulation and associated signaling in the CNS
Mouse models
- Intracellular trafficking, endosomal/lysosomal traffic, and function
- Kidney physiology, transepithelial transport
