Prof. Dr. Peter Nürnberg

Director, Cologne Center for Genomics

Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Cologne

Weyertal 115 b, 50931 Cologne

Phone: 0221-478-96801, Fax: 0221-478-96866

Honors & Awards (Selection)                     

1979-81                 Goethe scholarship of the Humboldt University

1985                     Humboldt Award

2004-09                 Coordinator of the national genotyping platform of the NGFN

2004-present          President of the"Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Gendiagnostik e.V." (AGD)

Selected Publications

• Siddiqui RA, Sauermann U, Altmüller J, Fritzer E, Nothnagel M, Dalibor N, Fellay J, Kaup FJ, Stahl-Hennig C, Nürnberg P, Krawczak M, Platzer M. (2009) X chromosomal variation is associated with slow progression to AIDS in HIV-1-infected women. Am J Hum Genet85, 228-239.

• Henneke M, Diekmann S, Ohlenbusch A, Kaiser J, Engelbrecht V, Kohlschütter A, Krätzner R, Madruga-Garrido M, Mayer M, Opitz L, Rodriguez D, Rüschendorf F, Schumacher J, Thiele H, Thoms S, Steinfeld R, Nürnberg P, Gärtner J. (2009) RNASET2-deficient cystic leuko­encephalopathy resembles congenital cytomegalovirus brain infection. Nat Genet41, 773-775.

• Rutsch F, Gailus S, Miousse IR, Suormala T, Sagné C, Toliat MR, Nürnberg G, Wittkampf T, Buers I, Sharifi A, Stucki M, Becker C, Baumgartner M, Robenek H, Marquardt T, Höhne W, Gasnier B, Rosenblatt DS, Fowler B, Nürnberg P.(2009). Identification of a putative lysosomal cobalamin exporter altered in the cblF defect of vitamin B(12) metabolism. Nat Genet41, 234-239.

• Buch S, Schafmayer C, Volzke H, Becker C, Franke A, von Eller-Eberstein H, Kluck C, Fölsch UR, Krawczak M, Schreiber S, Nürnberg P, Tepel J, and Hampe J. (2007). A genome-wide association scan identifies the hepatic cholesterol transporter ABCG8 as a susceptibility factor for human gallstone disease. Nat Genet39, 995-999.

• Timmann C, Evans JA, König IR, Kleensang A, Rüschendorf F, Lenzen J, Sievertsen J, Becker C, Enuameh Y, Kwakye KO, Opoku E, Browne EN, Ziegler A, Nürnberg P, Horstmann RD. (2007) Genome-wide linkage analysis of malaria infection intensity and mild disease.PLoS Genet3, e48.