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M.D. Barbara Namer
Research group leader - University hospital of the RWTH Aachen
Professional Bio
professional career
since 1.1.2019 Leader of the research group Neuroscience: translational pain research at the university hospital of the RWTH Aachen funded by the interdisciplinary center for clinical research (IZKF)
since 1.1.2018 Independent group leader (third party funded, German research council, DFG) at the Institute for Physiology and Pathophysiology of the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg. Methylglyoxal- Effects on nociceptors, mechanisms of sensitisation and desensitisation” (NA 970 3-1)
2016-2018 Independent group leader of the group “translational pain research in human experiments“ in Erlangen associated to the collaborative research centre SFB 1158 at the University of Mannheim/Heidelberg
2011- 2015 Independent group leader (third party funded, German research council, DFG) at the Institute for Physiology and Pathophysiology of the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg, “The role of sodium channels in neuropathic pain: regulation of sensory and axonal properties of human C-fibers through axonal sodium channel activity” (NA 970 1-1).
2009–2011 Independent group leader (Grant for “Habilitation“) at the Institute for Physiology and Pathophysiology of the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg
2003-2008 Postdoc at the Institute for Physiology and Pathophysiology at Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg, group of Prof..Handwerker
since 2004 Yearly research visits at Rikshospitalet Oslo, Norway
2004-2008 Yearly research visits at the University hospital Uppsala, Sweden
university education and academic degrees:
2018 Title of adjunct professor “ Außerplanmäßige Professorin”, University Erlangen-Nürnberg
2010 Venia legendi (Habilitation) for Physiology: University Erlangen-Nürnberg
2000 – 2004 Doctor of medicine, University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Supervisor: Prof. Schmelz
2002 – 2003 Residency, Clinic for Neurology, University Erlangen-Nürnberg
1995 – 2002 MD program, University Erlangen-Nürnberg
