CV

With the recruitment of the first coordinator Prof. Eisenhofer from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in 2007, a leading expert in adrenal catecholamine metabolism and neuroendocrine tumours has moved to Dresden. Eisenhofer was the first to define the formation of plasma-free metanephrines in adrenal tissue, now widely used as the gold standard for the diagnosis of phaeochromocytoma. He has over 25 years experience in patient-oriented research, most recently combining applications of transcriptomics, proteomics and catecholamine metabolomics to studies of patients with chromaffin cell tumours. He now leads an analytical laboratory with a focus on targeted analyses of small molecules by liquid chromatography with electrochemical detection or mass spectrometry. His laboratory is equipped with 8 HPLC systems, one UPLC system and a state-of-the art ABI5500 Q-trap mass spectrometer that extends his groups analytical capabilities to steroidomic and energy-pathway metabolomic profiling. This together with the clinical research expertise comprises a key core-facility for linking and integrating the various projects..

Scientific career