Education
1984 High School Exam, Max-Planck-Gymnasium, Heidenheim
1991 State examination, Medical School, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen
Dissertation, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen
1991 Approbation
1991-1992 Internship, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Abteilung für Hämatologie und Onkologie
1992-1993 Resident, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Abteilung für Hämatologie und Onkologie
1993-1995 Research Fellow, Division of Hematologic Malignancies, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
1995-1996 Research Associate, Division of Hematologic Malignancies, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Academic Positions
Junior Faculty at Harvard Medical School
1996-1997 Instructor in Medicine, Division of Hematologic Malignancies, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
1997-2002 Instructor in Medicine, Department of Adult Oncology, Disease Center for Hematologic Malignancies, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
C3-Professur at the University of Cologne
2002-2007 Professor for Tumorimmunology
W3-Professur at the University of Bonn
2007- Professor for Genomics and Immunoregulation
Awards
1993-1995 Stipend of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
1995 'Travel Award' of the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Hematology
1996 'Travel Award' of the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Hematology
1997 'Leukemia Clinical Research Award' of the Deutschen Gesellschaft für Hämatologie und Onkologie
1997 'Travel Award' of the Annual Meeting of the of the American Society of Hematology
1997 'Fellowship Award' of the Lymphoma Research Foundation of America
1998 'Special Fellowship Award' of the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society
1999 'Translational Research Award' of the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society
2000 'Senior Investigator Award' of the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation
2002 Sofja-Kovalevskaja Award of the Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation
Other Projects and Responsibilities
2019- Speaker, Central Coordination Unit of the DFG-funded NGS Competence Network
2019- Speaker, DFG Excellence Cluster ImmunoSensation2
2018- Speaker, West German Genome Center, site Bonn, one of four German DFG-funded NGS Competence Centers
2018- Steering Committee Member, Single Cell -omics Network Germany (SCOG)
2017- Speaker, Helmholtz-funded Sparse2Big consortium
2016- Founding Director of the Platform for Single Cell Genomics and
Epigenomics at the University of Bonn and the German Center for
Neurodegenerative Diseases
2015- Member of the Executive Board of the Excellence Cluster
ImmunoSensation (University of Bonn)
2012- Vice Dean for Research at the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences 2012- Member of the Steering Committee of the Forum Innovation der IHK
2011- Advisor of the Human Immunology Profiling Consortium (HIPC), USA
2011- Member of the Board of the Universitätsgesellschaft Bonn
2008- Director of Genomics and Immunoregulation at the LIMES Institute
2011-2012 Speaker of the Bonner Forum Biomedizin
2009-2012 Chairman of the Department for Molecular Biomedicine, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences
2006-2008 Associated Member of the Management Board of the Cologne Center for Genomics (CCG)
2005-2008 Founder of the Clinical Genomics Group Cologne (CGGC)
2004-2008 Founding member of the Virtual Institute of Interdisciplinary Research in Preventive Medicine (VIIRPM)
2002-2007 Member of the Steering Committee for Funds of Private Foundations associated with the University of Cologne
2002 Working group ‘Interdisciplinary Preventive Medicine’
2002 Initiatior of a model to integrate clinical research and basic research in a Unit at the University of Cologne: Molecular Tumor Biology and Tumor Immunology (MTBTI)
2002 Foundation of the Schultze Know How Beteiligungsgesellschaft mbH, Managing Director
2000-2001 Member of the planning committee of a Center for Experimental Medicine at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston
Memberships
2008- American Society of Immunology
2005- European Society for Cancer Immunology and Immunotherapy (ESCII)
2003- KIMT – Immunologische Krebstherapie
2003-2014- Deutsche Gesellschaft für Hämatologie und Onkologie
1998-2006- American Society of Hematology
1997-2004- New York Academy of Sciences
1995- Deutsche Gesellschaft für Immunologie
1995-2018- Deutsche Krebsgesellschaft
Editor
2017- Editorial Board, International Journal of Biochemistry and Cell Biology
2016/17- Guest Editor European Journal of Physiology
2014- Journal of Human Transcriptome
2014/2015- Guest Editor Seminars in Immunology
2008-2010- Editor oncopipeline
2001-2003- Section Editor Immunology and Immunotherapy for Leukemia