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Course Tutor
 Thomas Joos, Ph.D., is head of the Biochemistry Department of the NMI Natural and Medical Sciences Institute at the University of Tübingen. Dr. Joos has been with the NMI since 1998, where he has been responsible for protein microarray technology for proteomic research and diagnostics.
Prior to joining the NMI, Dr. Joos did his postdoctoral research in the laboratory of Prof. Peter Hausen at the Max-Planck-Institute of Developmental Biology, Department of Cell biology, researching cell-cell and cell-matrix interaction during early embryogenesis of Xenopus laevis. Dr. Joos studied Biochemistry at the University of Tübingen. He received his Ph.D. degree in 1985. The research of his thesis was analysis of integrin-α5 during early embroygenesis of Xenopus laevis.
Dr. Joos is a scientific advisor of BioChipNet (www.biochipnet.de), a member of the editorial boards of Drug Discovery Today, Proteomics, Molecular Biotechnology and Expert Review of Proteomics. He is a member of the scientific advisory board of the "Plasma Proteome Institute" Washington, DC, USA, Luminex Corporation, Austin, TX, USA and Epitome Biosystems, Waltham, MA, USA. Dr. Joos is an invited speaker, advisor and chairman at major international biochip conferences. He has published numerous papers, including recent articles in Drug Discovery Today, Proteomics and Trends in Biotechnology. Dr. Joos is a world leading expert and opinion leader within the field of protein microarray technologies and applications.
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