Dr. Erdem Tamguney

Curriculum Vitae

Erdem Tamguney studied biochemistry at the University of Bayreuth, at Imperial College in London, and at the Université Paris Diderot in Paris. In 1997 he received his diploma in biochemistry at the University of Bayreuth. In 2001 he received his doctorate from the Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, where he had worked on the viral growth-transformation of human T-cells. In 2002 he went to work as a postdoc with the Nobel Laureate Stanley Prusiner at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) in the USA. There his research focused on prions that cause neurodegenerative conditions such as the so called ‘mad cow disease’ in cattle and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in humans. From 2008 on he worked as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Neurology and the Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases at UCSF, where his research focused on transmission mechanisms of prions and the imaging, measurement, and detection of prions. Since 2011 he is a group leader at the DZNE in Bonn. 

Honors and Awards:

• German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), ERASMUS fellowship (1994–1995, 1996)
• Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds (BIF), PhD fellowship (1998–2001)
• German Research Foundation (DFG), Research fellowship (2002–2004)
• Larry L. Hillblom Foundation (LLHF), Postdoctoral fellow (2005–2008)