User:Oliver Hauss

Welcome to my personal space on Citizendium. A long time ago, I started out studying chemistry. Becoming more and more interested in medical topics, I eventually specialized into biochemistry and did a german university diploma thesis employing already a lot of molecular biology techniques. Realizing that my background in this field was still lacking, I joined the graduate school at UT Southwestern Medical Center specializing in cell regulation and graduating with a Master's degree for work on prostate physiology. Further pursuing my interest in molecular oncology, I worked at the Max-Planck-Institute for molecular Physiology developing new strategies for molecular colon cancer detection. For this work, I was awarded a PhD degree by the Ruhr-University of Bochum.

Areas of expertise

• Molecular biology and biomedical sciences, especially molecular oncology
• General chemistry

Education

July 2003-August 2006 Doctorate Studies

Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology, Dortmund and Ruhr-University, Bochum: Graduate School of Chemistry and Biochemistry

• Dissertation “New approaches for the early detection of colon cancer –the road to molecular point-of-care diagnosis”
• Minor: Neurobiochemistry

August 1999-May 2003 Graduate School

UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences

• Cell Regulation Program
• Master Thesis on androgen-regulated genes in the rat prostate

October 1991-March 1999 University Diploma (equiv. Master’s degree) in Chemistry

University of Wuerzburg (Bayerische Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg) Faculty of Chemistry and Pharmacy

• Thesis: “Characterization of a novel interaction of the 3p kinase”
• Voluntary course “Toxicology for Chemists”, certification of expertise with hazardous substances as required by the German law.