Tim Niehues studied Medicine at the University of Lübeck, Germany, the University College in Dublin, Ireland, and the Albert Ludwigs University Freiburg, Germany. From 1991 to 1993, he worked as Post-doctoral Fellow on the T cell receptor repertoire of conventional and unconventional T cell subsets (e.g. T-cell receptor αβ positive, CD4 and CD8 double-negative T-cells) in the laboratories of Jack Silver and Peter Gregersen (Molecular and Cellular Immunology, North Shore University Hospital, Cornell University, USA).
From 1993 to 2007, Tim Niehues moved to the University Children’s Hospital of the Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf to become resident, fellow registrar, lecturer and Adjunct Professor. He established the Jeffrey Modell Foundation Center Düsseldorf. Within national and international collaborations, his group was involved in the discovery of many new Primary Immunodeficiencies (now termed Inborn Errors of Immunity (IEI)).
Since 2007, he is the Director of the Centre for Child and Adolescent Medicine at Helios Klinikum Krefeld, academic hospital of the Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule (RWTH) Aachen. He serves on the Board of the German Society of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine (DGKJ) and is leading the DGKJ guideline commission which is involved in the development of >200 national guidelines in Pediatrics and its neighboring disciplines. He is part of multiple clinical research collaborations in the field of Pediatric Immunology and member of the advisory board of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Immunologie (DGfI, German Society for Immunology.
