PD Dr. rer. nat. Dr. habil. med. Rainer Tietze

Educational activity

• Lecturer: Lecture "Metallic Nanoparticles in Medicine" at the Faculty of Science of FAU, organized by Prof. Kryschi
• Lecturer: Seminar series "Preparation for scientific work for physicians in the 2nd semester", at the medical faculty of FAU, organized by Prof. Schiebel
• Lecturer: Lecture "Biomedical Applications in Nanomedicine and Nanotoxicology" at the Faculty of Natural Sciences of FAU
• Lecturer: "Nanomedicine in clinic and research", at the medical faculty of FAU
• Supervision of doctoral and master theses of the Faculty of Natural Sciences and the Faculty of Technology of FAU
• Supervision of master theses of the medical faculty of FAU

Scientific activity
General: Development, synthesis, characterization of superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles (SPIONs) for medical applications in drug delivery and diagnostics.

Projects:

• Magnetic drug targeting in oncology.
• Magnetic Drug Targeting in Arteriosclerosis
• Gene therapy using SPIONs (DFG funding with Tel-Aviv University in Israel)
• Effect enhancement by SPIONs for radiotherapy
• Pathogen extraction, sepsis diagnosis and treatment (funded by: Dr. Robert Pfleger Foundation)
• Quantum sensing with SPIONs as histological imaging technique
• In vitro diagnostics of diseases, e.g. SarsCov2 antibody status (funded by: Manfred Roth Foundation)

• Deputy Head SEON
• Head of the Synthesis Department of SEON
• Safety Officer

Memberships

• Expert Committee Magnetic Methods in Medicine
• Central Institute for Medical Technology (ZiMT)
• Interdisciplinary Center for Functional Particle Systems (FPS)

2009 - Young Scientist Award of the Society for Histochemistry Mieders, Austria