Curriculum Vitae

Prof. Dr. Veit Hornung

Prof. Dr. Veit Hornung

Group Leader
+49 89 2180-71109
+49 89 2180-71111
MPI of Biochemistry,
Am Klopferspitz 18,
82152 Martinsried
Molecular Mechanisms of Inflammation
Since 2015
Chair of Immunobiochemistry (W3)
Gene Center and Department of Biochemistry, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Germany

2014 - 2015
Director (W3)
Institute of Molecular Medicine, University Hosüital, University of Bonn, Germany

2008 - 2013
Professor of Clinical Biochemistry (W2)
Intitute for Clinical Chemistry and Clinical Pharmacology, University Hospital, University of Bonn, Germany

2006 - 2008
Postdoctoral research fellow
Laboratories of Prof. Dr. Eicke Latz and Prof. Dr. Kate Fitzgerald in the Division of Infectous Diseases and Immunology at the University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worchester, USA

2005 - 2006
Group leader "Therapeutic Oligonucleotides"
Division of Clinical Pharmacology, LMU, Munich, Germany

2003 - 2006
Research fellow / Postdoctoral research fellow
Laboratory of Prof. Dr. Gunther Hartmann, Division of Clinical Pharmacology at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Hospital Munich, Munich, Germany

1996 - 2003
Study of Medicine

University of Munich, LMU, including rotations at Harvard University (Bosten, USA) and University of Zurich (Zurich, Switzerland)


Awards and Honors


2016
Elected Leopoldina Member

2015
ERC Consolidator Grant

2015
Elected EMBO Member

2014
Designated as a Highly Cited Researcheer in the field of Immunology by Thomson Reuters

2013
Pettenkofer Prize of the Pettenkofer Foundation

2010
Paul-Martini-Prize of the Paul-Martini-Foundation

2010
Award for Basic Medical Research of the GlaxoSmithKline Foundation

2007
Heinz Maier Leibnitz Prize of the German Research Foundation

2006
Graduate-Scholarship of the Novartis-Foundation for the Therapeutical Research

2002
Study Scholarship of the Munich-Harvard-Alliance

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