Consulting and Refereeing

Ralf Dahm has acted as consultant on scientific topics, including stem cell biology, cloning, genetic engineering, vision science and developmental biology, for e.g.

• companies
• politicians/political parties
• religious leaders/church organisations
• different media (TV, radio, print, online), including prestigious institutions such as the BBC

Moreover, he has been a referee for

• funding bodies, such as the European Commission (Europe); the National Science Foundation (NSF), USA; the Wellcome Trust, UK; the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), UK; the Belgian FRO (Fonds voor research in oftalmologie/Fonds de recherche en ophthalmologie); and the Telethon Foundation for Biomedical Research, Italy
• scientific institutions, including the Bundesministerium for Wissenschaft und Forschung der Republik Österreich (BMWF; Austrian Federal Ministry for Science and Research), Vienna, Austria; the Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, New Delhi, India; the Department of Science & Technology of the Government of India; the National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS), Bangalore, India; the Kultusministerium des Landes Sachsen-Anhalt (Science Ministry of the State of Saxony-Anhalt), Germany and the University of Trento, Italy
• international scientific journals, including among others Nature Methods, Current Biology, Human Genetics, Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience, Expert Opinion on Biological Therapy, and the Encyclopedia of Molecular Cell Biology and Molecular Medicine