Biography:

Nicolaus Dahlmann earned his Master of Medicine, his PhD and his Priv. Doz. Dr. med. habil. at the Univ. Hosp., Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany. During the first two years at the I. Medical Dep. he was engaged in questions of infant development and obesity. He then worked ten years in the Dep. of Molecular Biology, University Hamburg, and described a new enzymatic activity (dTTPase). His work was honored by two awards (Dr. Martini Price, G.E. Konjetzny Price). He was conferred Univ.-Prof. for Laboratory Medicine by the Dep. of Clinical Biochemistry, Univ. Hospital Bonn, and then became head of the Dep. of Laboratory Med., General Hosp. Hamburg-Harburg. Some years later, he founded the start-up "stringID" and the Institute for Biometry and Nutrition, Hamburg. Up to now, he is engaged in questions of public health, nutrition, and body shape. He published more than 50 articles in peer-reviewed international journals.