PERSONAL DATA
Nationality: Austria
Date of birth: 10.11.1976
Researcher unique identifier(s):
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Hesso_Farhan
http://scholar.google.ch/citations?user=GUo8c5QAAAAJ&hl=de
*EDUCATION
2004 MD and Doctorate in medical sciences (Dr. sci. med)
Institute of Pharmacology, Medical University of Vienna, Austria
Thesis topic: trafficking of neurotransmitter transporters
CURRENT AND PREVIOUS POSITIONS
2016- Associate Professor
Faculty of Medicine, Institute of Basic Medical Research, University of Oslo, Norway
2011-2016 Junior Group Leader
Biotechnology Institute Thurgau, Department of Biology, University of Konstanz,
Germany & Switzerland
2007-2011 Postdoc
Biozentrum, University of Basel, Switzerland
FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS
2008-2010 EMBO long-term fellowship, at the Biozentrum, University of Basel, Switzerland
2007-2008 Schrödinger postdoctoral fellowship, at the Biozentrum, University of Basel, Switzerland
2004 Award of ZAK Pharma for the best paper by a young pharmacologist in Austria
ORGANISATION OF SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS
March 2014 Main organizer, EMBO Workshop “Signaling to and from Endomembranes”, Allensbach, Germany
Sep.2016 Co-organizer, Biochemical Society UK meeting “Pseudoenzymes 2016”, Liverpool, UK
COMMISSIONS OF TRUST
Reviewer for the following Journals: Cancer Cell, Journal of Cell Biology, Molecular Systems Biology, EMBO Journal, Molecular Biology of the Cell, Journal of Cell Science, Blood, Cell Death and Disease, Scientific Reports, International Journal of Cancer
Reviewer for the following Grant agencies: German Science Foundation (DFG), Israel Science Foundation, Association Française contre les Myopathies (AFM, France), Action Medical Research (United Kindgdom), i-STAR grants (Singapore), ANR grants (France)