Honorary Senior Lecturer
- About
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- Email Address
- felix.grassmann@abdn.ac.uk
- Office Address
- School/Department
- School of Medicine, Medical Sciences and Nutrition
Biography
I received my PhD in the field of human genetics from the University of Regensburg, Germany. I spent several years as a postdoctoral researcher at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden and was appointed as Senior Lecturer of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics at the Institute of Medical Sciences. Currently, I am a Professor of Epidemiology and the Health and Medical University in Potsdam, Germany as well as a Honorary Senior Lecturer at the IMS in Aberdeen.
Prizes and Awards
2018 Leopoldina Postdoc Fellowship
2016 Travel Grant “RD Meeting Travel Grant” 2016 (Kyoto, Japan)
2016 Pro Retina “Makula-Forschungspreis” (Excellence in Visual Science Award)
2015 Distinguished PhD-Thesis Award (University of Regensburg)
2015 Travel Grant “ARVO Travel Grant“ 2015 (Denver, Colorado, USA)
2012 ProRetina Travel Award (RD Meeting 2012)
2009 Alumni Award University of Regensburg
2009 ProRetina Poster Award
- Research
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Research Overview
The main focus of my research is to understand the inherited and acquired genetics in complex diseases. To this end, I am working with public datasets as well as consortia to generate the largest datasets for each disease of interest. I am particularly interested in diseases with a significant individual and societal burden in aging populations such as age-related macular degeneration, breast cancer and cardiometabolic diseases. My group uses the full spectrum of high-throughput omics tools available to understand the underlying biology behind those diseases with the potential to uncover novel ways to treat of prevent them.
Research Areas
Research Specialisms
- Bioinformatics
- Biomedical Sciences
- Epidemiology
- Human Genetics
- Statistics
Our research specialisms are based on the Higher Education Classification of Subjects (HECoS) which is HESA open data, published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence.
- Publications
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Features of age-related macular degeneration in the general adults and their dependency on age, sex, and smoking: Results from the German KORA study
PloS ONE, vol. 11, no. 11, e0167181Contributions to Journals: ArticlesDistinct genetic risk profile of the rapidly progressing diffuse-trickling subtype of geographic atrophy in age-related macular degeneration (AMD)
Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science, vol. 57, no. 6, pp. 2463-2471Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1167/iovs.15-18593
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Multiallelic copy number variation in the complement component 4A (C4A) gene is associated with late-stage age-related macular degeneration (AMD)
Journal of Neuroinflammation, vol. 13, 81Contributions to Journals: ArticlesA large genome-wide association study of age-related macular degeneration highlights contributions of rare and common variants
Nature Genetics, vol. 48, pp. 134-143Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/ng.3448
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Synonymous variants in HTRA1 implicated in AMD susceptibility impair its capacity to regulate TGF-βsignaling
Human Molecular Genetics, vol. 24, no. 22, pp. 6361-6373Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/hmg/ddv346
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Genetisches Risiko bei der altersabhängigen Makuladegeneration
BioSpektrum, vol. 21, no. 7, pp. 703-705Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12268-015-0633-4
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What Does Genetics Tell Us About Age-Related Macular Degeneration?
Annual review of vision science, vol. 1, pp. 73-96Contributions to Journals: ArticlesThe genetics of age-related macular degeneration (AMD) - Novel targets for designing treatment options?
European Journal of Pharmaceutics and Biopharmaceutics, vol. 95, no. Part B, pp. 194-202Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejpb.2015.04.039
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A Candidate Gene Association Study Identifies DAPL1 as a Female-Specific Susceptibility Locus for Age-Related Macular Degeneration (AMD)
NeuroMolecular Medicine, vol. 17, no. 2, pp. 111-120Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12017-015-8342-1
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Clinical and genetic factors associated with progression of geographic atrophy lesions in age-related macular degeneration
PloS ONE, vol. 10, no. 5, e0126636Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0126636
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