Univ.-Prof. Dr. med. Thomas Brüning
IPA
Director of the Institute
Bürkle-de-la-Camp-Platz 1
44789 Bochum
Tel. +49 30 13001-4001
Fax +49 30 13001-4003
| Scientific and occupational Career | |
| 10/2001 | Full Professorship, Occupational Medicine, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany |
| Since 2/2001 | Director, Institute for Prevention and Occupational Medicine of the German Social Accident Insurance, Institute of the Ruhr-University Bochum (IPA), Germany |
| 04/2000 | ’German Habilitation’,Occupational Medicine, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-University Bonn, Germany |
| 10/1999 | Additional designation ’Doctor of Environmental Medicine’ |
| 07 – 08/1998 and 07 – 08/1999 | DAAD-Scholarship, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm (Clinical Research Center Novum), Sweden |
| 02/1998 - 2000 | Assistant Physician, Institute for Occupational Physiology Dortmund, Germany, Management and coordination of occupational projects in cooperation with the Medical University-Clinic Bonn |
| 02/1996 - 01/1998 | Assistant Physician, Internal Medicine, Medical University-Clinic Bonn, Germany (Foundation and management of an occupational outpatient department) |
| 02/1994 – 01/1996 | Assistant Physician, Occupational Medicine, Institute for Occupational Physiology, University of Dortmund, Germany Senior physician, Center of Work and Health, Dortmund/Wuppertal, Germany |
| 09/1994 | MD Award for the 'best thesis' in the field of the cardiovascular system |
| 10/1992 – 04/1993 | Merck, Sharp & Dohme Research-Scholarship, Department of Dermatology, University of California, San Francisco, USA |
| 1989 – 1992 | Postgraduate, Institute for Arterial Sclerosis Research, WWU, Münster, Germany |
| 1987 – 1992 | Doctoral studies, Medicine, WWU, Münster, Germany |
| 1986 | Internship, "Approbation" (license to practice pharmaceutics) |
| 1980 - 1985 | Pharmaceutical Sciences, Westfälische Wilhelms University (WWU), Münster, Germany |
| Membership in Scientific Institutions and Committees | |
| 01/2010 | Founding Member and Principal Investigator, PURE (Protein Research Unit Ruhr within Europe) |
| 11/2009 | Member, Commission "Gen Diagnostic Law" (Federal Law on Genetic Analysis in Humans), Robert-Koch-Institute, Berlin, Germany |
| 11/2009 | Chair, Working Group "Derivation of Threshold Limit Values for Substances causing local effects", Joint Working Group of the Committee on Hazardous Substances (AGS) of the Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs and the MAK Commission of the "Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft" |
| 02/2009 | Member, Commission on Occupational Medicine, Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs |
| 07/2006 | Member, Section "Risk Acceptance", Committee on Hazardous Substances (AGS), Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs |
| 05/2005 | Member, Section ’UA III - Chemical Risk Analysis’, Committee on Hazardous Substances (AGS), Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs |
| 10/2004 | Board Member, MAK Commission of the ’Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft’ |
| 09/2004 | Board Member, Section ’Occupational Medicine’, Academy for Continuing Medical Education, General Medical Council, Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany |
| 01/2004 | Management of the continuing medical education courses for occupational medicine for obtaining the certification ’Occupational Medicine’, Academy for Continuing Medical Education, General Medical Council, Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia |
| 07/2003 | Trustee, Fraunhofer Institute for Toxicology and Experimental Medicine, Hannover, Germany |
| 03/2003 | Board Member, German Society for Occupational and Environmental Medicine (DGAUM) |
| 07/2002 | Member, Commission for Hazardous Substances (AGS) of the Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs, Section ’Toxicology’ |
| 04/2001 | Member, Commission for Occupational Medicine, German Social Accident Insurance |
| 04/1999 | Founding Member and Principal Investigator of GENICA (Interdisciplinary Study Group on Gene Environment Interaction and Breast Cancer in Germany) within the German Human Genome Project |