Dr Thomas Kietzmann

Dr Thomas Kietzmann
Consulting Editor: Thomas Kietzmann
Professor of Cell Biochemistry, University of Oulu, Finland
Dr. Kietzmann is a graduate from the University of Greifswald, Germany. He was a UNESCO fellowship recipient and spent postdoctoral studies at the University of Göttingen, Germany. He was a Professor of Biochemistry at the Faculty of Chemistry at the University of Kaiserslautern, Germany, and is currently Professor of Cellular Biochemistry at the Faculty of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine at the University of Oulu, Finland. His research interests include metabolism, hypoxia-dependent signal transduction processes reactive oxygen species (ROS) and regulation transcription factors and their role in tumorigenesis. He is a PI in several national projects; he also participated in several EU projects, and served as an evaluation expert for numerous organizations including the European Commission. He received several academic honors including a prestigeous award from the German Association for the Study of the Liver (GASL).