CV Axel Ullrich

Born:
Citizenship:
October 19, 1943 in Lauban, Germany
Germany
 

Education

04/1964 – 04/1971

University of Tübingen, Germany - Diploma in Biochemistry

05/1971 – 03/1972

University of Münster, Germany, Institute of Biochemistry

04/1972 – 09/1975

University of Heidelberg, Germany - Ph.D. Molecular Genetics

 

Professional Appointments

05/1971 – 03/1972 Assistant Biochemist - Institute of Biochemistry, University of Münster, Germany 
10/1975 – 09/1977Postdoctoral Fellow - University of California, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, San Francisco, U.S.A.
10/1977 – 12/1978Assistant Research Biochemist - University of California, San Francisco, U.S.A.
01/1979 – 10/1984Senior Scientist - Genentech, Inc., South San Francisco, U.S.A.
11/1984 – 06/1988Staff Scientist - Genentech, Inc., South San Francisco, U.S.A.
12/1988 – presentDirector - Department of Molecular Biology, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Martinsried, Germany
1999Managing Director – Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry
07/2004 – presentVisiting Scientist and Research Director of the Singapore Oncogenome (SOG) Project, Centre for Molecular Medicine (CMM),
Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*Star), Singapore
2007Managing Director – Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry
2007 – 2011Scientific Advisor and Program Director of the Singapore Oncogenome (SOG) Project, Institute of Medical Biology (IMB),
Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*Star), Singapore
2010 – 2013Distinguished Visiting Professor King Saud University Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
  

Advisory Board Memberships

1991 – 1995Science Advisory Board, Hagedorn Research Institute, Denmark
1991Co-Founder SUGEN, Inc., South San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
09/1991 – 08/1999Board of Directors and Science Advisory Board, SUGEN, Inc.,
South San Francisco, U.S.A.
1992 – presentAdvisory Board, Max Planck Innovation GmbH, Munich, Germany
1992 – 2000Vice Chairman Advisory Board, Hans Knöll Institut, Jena, Germany
1995 – 2002Science Advisory Board, The Wistar Institute, Philadelphia, USA
1996 – 2002Founder and Vice Chairman of Academic Board - Cooperation Laboratory for Biological Signal Transduction Research,
Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China
1996 – 2004Chairman Advisory Board, Max Planck Innovation GmbH, Munich, Germany
07/1997 – 07/2007Supervisory Board, BioM AG, Martinsried, Germany
1998Co-Founder Virgene/Axxima Pharmaceuticals AG, Martinsried, Germany
1998 – 2004Board of Directors, Axxima Pharmaceuticals AG, Martinsried, Germany
01/1999 – 12/1999Co-Chairman Clinical Science Advisory Board, SUGEN/Pharmacia, U.S.A.
09/1999 – 03/2003Science Advisory Board, SUGEN/Pharmacia, U.S.A.
2000 – 2004International Advisory Council (IAC), Agency of Science, Technology and Research (A*Star), Singapore
09/2001Founder of U3 Pharma AG, Martinsried, Germany
2001 – 05/2008Chairman of the Board of Directors, U3 Pharma AG, Martinsried, Germany
2001 – 2003Science Advisory Board, RZPD (German Resource Center for Genome Research), Berlin, Germany
2001 – presentScience Advisory Board, Biomedicum, Helsinki, Finland
05/2003 – presentOne-North Resource Advisory Panel,
JTC Corporation and Ministry for the Environment, Singapore
07/2003 – 06/2006Advisory Board, Boehringer-Ingelheim, Ingelheim, Germany
2003 – 2004International Panel for the Planning of a Research-Intensive University,
Ministry of Education, Singapore
08/2003 – 08/2006Board of Trustees, Max-Delbrück-Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany
12/2003Scientific Committee, Genoma España, Madrid, Spain
11/2005 – presentScientific Advisory Board, University of Montreal, Groupe de Recherche
Universitaire sur le Médicament (GRUM), Canada
12/2005Co-Founder of Kinaxo Biotechnologies GmbH, Martinsried, Germany
04/2006 – presentAcademic Research Council (ARC) of National Research Foundation (NRF), Singapore
08/2006 – presentScientific Advisory Board, Receptor BioLogix, Inc., San Francisco, USA
06/2007 – presentScientific Advisory Board, Centenary Institute, Newtown, Australia
05/2008 – presentAdvisory Board, Fondazione Piemontese per la Ricerca sul Cancro, Candiolo, Italy
05/2008 – presentAdvisory Board, National Center for Tumor Diseases (NCT), Heidelberg, Germany
 

Memberships in Scientific Societies

Academia Europaea
TheAmerican Society for Cell Biology
Gesellschaft für Biochemie und Molekularbiologie e.V.
American Association for Cancer Research
International Union Against Cancer (UICC)
Deutsche Krebsgesellschaft
International Life Science Forum
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
Elected Member of the Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina
Elected Member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences
Elected Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
 

Extramural Responsibilities

Editorial Board, Cancer Research
Editorial Board, Growth Factors
Editorial Board, Molecular Brain Research
Editorial Board, Receptors and Channels
Editorial Board, Journal of Cellular Physiology
Editorial Board, Cancer Genomics & Proteomics
Editorial Board, Molecules and Cells
Editorial Board, Molecular Cancer Research
Co-Editor-in-Chief, Current Signal Transduction Therapy
Editorial Board, EMBO Molecular Medicine
 

Honors and Awards

1987Paul Langerhans Medal of the German Diabetes Society
1987John W. Cline Memorial Lecturer (sponsored by the American Cancer Society), UCLA
1987First Annual Ray A. and Robert L. Kroc Lecture, University of Massachusetts
1988Berthold Medal of the German Society for Endocrinology
1990Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization
1990Mildred Scheel Memorial Lecture, Modern Trends in Human Leukemia Conference, Hamburg
1991Prix Antoine Lacassagne from La Ligue Nationale Française Contre le Cancer, Paris, France
199611th Annual Ray A. and Robert L. Kroc Lecture, Joslin Diabetes Center, Boston, U.S.A.
1996Honorary Professor - Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China
1996-98Visiting Professor, Académie de Paris, Sorbonne, Paris, France
1997Gold Medal and “XXII Lorenzini” Annual Lecture, Fondazione Giovanni Lorenzini,
Medical Science Foundation, Bari, Italy
1998German Cancer Prize of the German Cancer Society, Frankfurt, Germany
1999Ludwig Heilmeyer Lecture, The International Society of Gastroenterological Carcinogenesis, Ulm
2000Honorary Professor, University of Tübingen, Germany
2000Bruce F. Cain Memorial Award, American Association for Cancer Research
2000Elected Member of the Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina
2001Busenfreund, a prize awarded by mamazone – women and science against breast cancer e.V.
2001Robert-Koch Prize of the Robert-Koch-Foundation
2001International Fellow, Garvan Institute of Cancer Research, Sydney, Australia
2002Virchow Lecture, University of Würzburg, Germany
2002IJC-Meyenburg Lecture, University of Heidelberg, Germany
2003King Faisal International Prize for Medicine, King Faisal Foundation, Saudi Arabia
2003Meyer-Schwickerath Lecture, Society of Medical Science, Essen, Germany
2003Honorary Member of The World Innovation Foundation
2005Warburg Medal, Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (GBM), Germany
2005Elected Member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences
2005European BioBusiness Leadership Award, USC Marshall School of Business, U.S.A.
2005Clifford Prize for Cancer Research (also known as “Shiraz Prize”) awarded by the
Institute of Medical and Veterinary Science, Adelaide, Australia
2005EMBO “Silver Lecture”, Candiolo, Italy
2006Deutsche Krebshilfe Preis 2005, Deutsche Krebshilfe (German Cancer Aid) e.V., Germany
2007ASMR Medal, The Australian Society for Medical Research, Sydney, Australia
2007Warren Alpert Prize, Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, U.S.A.
(with Dennis Slamon, Michael Shepard, Robert Weinberg)
2007Karl Heinz Beckurts-Preis, Karl Heinz Beckurts-Stiftung, Garching, Germany
2007Prince Mahidol Award of Medicine, Prince Mahidol Foundation, Bangkok, Thailand
2008Pezcoller Foundation-AACR International Award for Cancer Research, Pezcoller Foundation, Trento, Italy
2008Bucher Lecture, 33rd FEBS Congress, Athens, Greece
2008Hamdan Award for Medical Research Excellence, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
2009Emanuel-Merck-Lectureship-Award, Merck KgaA and the University of Technology, Darmstadt, Germany
2009Sergio Lombroso Award in Cancer Research, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
2009Laurea Honoris Causa (Dr. h.c.) in Medicine and Surgery, University of Chieti, Italy
2009Bundesverdienstkreuz 1. Klasse der Bundesrepublik Deutschland
2009Debrecen Award for Molecular Medicine, University of Debrecen, Hungary
2010Wolf Foundation Prize in Medicine, Wolf Foundation, Israel
2010MTTC Lifetime Achievement Award, ESMO, Madrid, Spain
2010GIST 2010 Hall of Fame Award, Life Raft Group, Wayne, NJ, USA
2010Ismar-Boas-Medaille, DGVS, Stuttgart, Germany
2012Doctor Honoris Causa (Dr. h.c.), University of
Athens, Greece
2012Doctor Honoris Causa (Dr. h.c.), Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary
2012FEBS Lecture, EACR 22, IMPPC Barcelona, Spain
2012Lennox K Black International Prize for Excellence in Biomedical Research, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, USA
2012Election to the Hall of Fame of German Science, Manager Magazine, Essen, Germany
2013Elected Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
2014CRRT International Cancer Research Award, Cancer Research Relief and Trust, Chennai
2014Elected fellow of the AACR Academy Class of 2014, American Association for Cancer Research, San Diego
2017Johann-Georg-Zimmermann Medal, Hannover, Germany
2019

Lasker~DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award, Lasker Foundation, USA

  
  
  
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