Leena Bruckner-Tudermann

Professor and Chair of the Department of Dermatology · University Medical Center Freiburg · company speakers →

Leena Bruckner-Tuderman is Professor and Chair of the Department of Dermatology at the University Medical Center, Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg. She studied medicine in Oulu, Finland, and after an experimental dissertation in molecular medicine, continued her postdoctoral work in biochemistry in Piscataway, N.J., USA, and in structural biology in Basel, Switzerland. She specialized in dermatology and qualified for her state doctorate (Habilitation) at University of Zurich, Switzerland, 1988. From 1990 to 1994 she was a Score-Fellow of the Swiss National Science Foundation. Thereafter she became a Heisenberg fellow of the German Research Foundation (DFG) and moved to the Münster University, Germany. Since 2007 she is fellow and deputy director of the School of Life Sciences – LIFENET of the newly founded institute, FRIAS, Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies. Her research focus is molecular genetics and disease mechanisms of skin disorders, the biology of basement membranes and the extracellular matrix, epithelial-mesenchymal communication, cell-matrix interactions. Development of cell-, gene- and protein-based therapies.

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