Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Christoph Dieterich

Medical/Professional background
Site Coordinator HiGHmed UK-HD
BMBF funded consortium HiGHmed (www.highmed.org)
Leiter Bioinformatik und Systemkardiologie, Klaus Tschira Institute for Computational Cardiology, Abteilung Innere Medizin III, Universitätsklinikum Heidelberg
Principal investigator at the German Center for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK)
Nachwuchsgruppenleiter „Computational RNA Biology and Ageing“, sowie Leiter der core facility „Bioinformatik“ am MPI für Biologie des Alterns, Köln
Leiter der wissenschaftlichen Plattform Bioinformatik, Max Delbrück Zentrum für Molekulare Medizin, Berlin
Bioinformatics Research Assistant
Evolutionary Biology Department, MPI for Developmental Biology, Tübingen, Germany
Scientific background
PhD in Bioinformatics
Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics and Free University Berlin, Germany
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Martin Vingron
Studium: University of York, UK
Studium: Universität Stuttgart
Grants
Stipend from Serono Biotech (now Merck) for MRes studies in York, UK.
Hugo Geiger Prize of the Bavarian Government for my work on an in vitro tissue system.
Professional memberships
Research Network “EU-CardioRNA
(https://cardiorna.eu)
Research Network “Epitran”
(https://epitran.eu)
Research Network “Cardiolinc”
(https://www.cardiolinc.org)
German Society of Cardiology (DGK)
International RNA Society
International Society for Computational Biology
Interessensgebiete/ Forschungsschwerpunkte
Computational RNA Biology & Bioinformatics
- RNA modifications & editing
- RNA splicing and 3’ emd formation
- RNA localization, stability and translation
- ncRNAs (lncRNAs and circular RNAs in particular)
- RNA interactions
Data integration and dissemination
- Systems cardiology by network level analysis
- Personalized Medicine through OMICS data
- Web applications and databases
Data integration and dissemination
- Systems cardiology by network level analysis
- Personalized Medicine through OMICS data
- Web applications and databases
Patente
DE 2000-10062626 A: 20001215. In Vitro-Gewebetestsystem