Dr. Solon Thanos

Professor
Experimental Ophthalmology
University of Munster
Germany

Professor Ophthalmology
Biography

1983-1985 Scientific Assistent, Max-Planck-Inst. Entwicklungsbiologie, Tübingen; 1986-1987 Visiting Scientist, Neuroscience Unit, McGill University, Montreal; 1987-1988 Group leader of the regeneration group, Max-Planck-Institute, Tübingen; 1988-1994 Appointment at the Eye Hospital Tübingen; 1994-1996 Awarded with a Herrmann and Lilly-Schilling professorship; 1995 Call to lead a Dept. of Experimental Ophthalmology at the University Hamburg; 1996 Call to lead the Dept. of Neuroanatomy at the Paul-Flechsig-Institute for Brain Research, University of Leipzig; 1996 Awarded with the “International Chibret Award”; 1996 Call to a professorship at the University of Tübingen; 1996 Call and appointment with the University of Münster, Head of the Dept. of Experimental Ophthalmology; 2002 Call to lead the Institute of Experimental Medicine, University of Heidelberg/Mannheim; Since 01/2010: Director of the Institute of Exp. Ophthalmologie, Univ. Münster.

Research Intrest

Ophthalmology

List of Publications
Anders F, Teister J, Grus FH, Thanos S, Prokosch V, et al. (2016) Alterations of crystallins in experimental model of glaucoma and their neuroprotective properties. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci 57.
Böhm MR, Hodes F, Brockhaus K, Hummel S, Thanos S, et al. (2016) Is Angiostatin Involved in Physiological Foveal Avascularity? Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci 57: 4536-4552.
Thanos S, Oellers P, Meyer Zu Hörste M, Prokosch V, Schlatt S, et al. (2016) Role of Thyroxine in the Development of Keratoconus. Cornea 35: 1338-1346.
Thanos S, Mertsch S, Schlich K, Hummel S (2016) snRPN controls controls ability for post-injury axonal regeneration in primate retinal ganglion cells. Brain Inj 30: 526.
Breitbach M, Tappeiner C, Thanos S, Ganser G, Heiligenhaus A, et al. (2017) Discontinuation of long-term adalimumab treatment in patients with juvenile idiopathic arthritis-associated uveitis. Graefes Arch Clin Exp Ophthalmol 255: 171-177.