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October 19, 1943 in Lauban, Germany Germany |
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Education |
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04/1964 – 04/1971 |
University of Tübingen, Germany - Diploma in Biochemistry |
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05/1971 – 03/1972 |
University of Münster, Germany, Institute of Biochemistry |
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04/1972 – 09/1975 |
University of Heidelberg, Germany - Ph.D. Molecular Genetics |
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Professional Appointments
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| 05/1971 – 03/1972 | Assistant Biochemist - Institute of Biochemistry, University of Münster, Germany | |
| 10/1975 – 09/1977 | Postdoctoral Fellow - University of California, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, San Francisco, U.S.A. | |
| 10/1977 – 12/1978 | Assistant Research Biochemist - University of California, San Francisco, U.S.A. | |
| 01/1979 – 10/1984 | Senior Scientist - Genentech, Inc., South San Francisco, U.S.A. | |
| 11/1984 – 06/1988 | Staff Scientist - Genentech, Inc., South San Francisco, U.S.A. | |
| 12/1988 – present | Director - Department of Molecular Biology, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Martinsried, Germany | |
| 1999 | Managing Director – Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry | |
| 07/2004 – present | Visiting Scientist and Research Director of the Singapore Oncogenome (SOG) Project, Centre for Molecular Medicine (CMM), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*Star), Singapore |
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| 2007 | Managing Director – Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry | |
| 2007 – 2011 | Scientific Advisor and Program Director of the Singapore Oncogenome (SOG) Project, Institute of Medical Biology (IMB), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*Star), Singapore |
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| 2010 – 2013 | Distinguished Visiting Professor King Saud University Riyadh, Saudi Arabia | |
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Advisory Board Memberships
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| 1991 – 1995 | Science Advisory Board, Hagedorn Research Institute, Denmark | |
| 1991 | Co-Founder SUGEN, Inc., South San Francisco, CA, U.S.A. | |
| 09/1991 – 08/1999 | Board of Directors and Science Advisory Board, SUGEN, Inc., South San Francisco, U.S.A. |
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| 1992 – present | Advisory Board, Max Planck Innovation GmbH, Munich, Germany | |
| 1992 – 2000 | Vice Chairman Advisory Board, Hans Knöll Institut, Jena, Germany | |
| 1995 – 2002 | Science Advisory Board, The Wistar Institute, Philadelphia, USA | |
| 1996 – 2002 | Founder and Vice Chairman of Academic Board - Cooperation Laboratory for Biological Signal Transduction Research, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China |
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| 1996 – 2004 | Chairman Advisory Board, Max Planck Innovation GmbH, Munich, Germany | |
| 07/1997 – 07/2007 | Supervisory Board, BioM AG, Martinsried, Germany | |
| 1998 | Co-Founder Virgene/Axxima Pharmaceuticals AG, Martinsried, Germany | |
| 1998 – 2004 | Board of Directors, Axxima Pharmaceuticals AG, Martinsried, Germany | |
| 01/1999 – 12/1999 | Co-Chairman Clinical Science Advisory Board, SUGEN/Pharmacia, U.S.A. | |
| 09/1999 – 03/2003 | Science Advisory Board, SUGEN/Pharmacia, U.S.A. | |
| 2000 – 2004 | International Advisory Council (IAC), Agency of Science, Technology and Research (A*Star), Singapore | |
| 09/2001 | Founder of U3 Pharma AG, Martinsried, Germany | |
| 2001 – 05/2008 | Chairman of the Board of Directors, U3 Pharma AG, Martinsried, Germany | |
| 2001 – 2003 | Science Advisory Board, RZPD (German Resource Center for Genome Research), Berlin, Germany | |
| 2001 – present | Science Advisory Board, Biomedicum, Helsinki, Finland | |
| 05/2003 – present | One-North Resource Advisory Panel, JTC Corporation and Ministry for the Environment, Singapore |
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| 07/2003 – 06/2006 | Advisory Board, Boehringer-Ingelheim, Ingelheim, Germany | |
| 2003 – 2004 | International Panel for the Planning of a Research-Intensive University, Ministry of Education, Singapore |
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| 08/2003 – 08/2006 | Board of Trustees, Max-Delbrück-Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany | |
| 12/2003 | Scientific Committee, Genoma España, Madrid, Spain | |
| 11/2005 – present | Scientific Advisory Board, University of Montreal, Groupe de Recherche Universitaire sur le Médicament (GRUM), Canada |
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| 12/2005 | Co-Founder of Kinaxo Biotechnologies GmbH, Martinsried, Germany | |
| 04/2006 – present | Academic Research Council (ARC) of National Research Foundation (NRF), Singapore | |
| 08/2006 – present | Scientific Advisory Board, Receptor BioLogix, Inc., San Francisco, USA | |
| 06/2007 – present | Scientific Advisory Board, Centenary Institute, Newtown, Australia | |
| 05/2008 – present | Advisory Board, Fondazione Piemontese per la Ricerca sul Cancro, Candiolo, Italy | |
| 05/2008 – present | Advisory Board, National Center for Tumor Diseases (NCT), Heidelberg, Germany | |
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Memberships in Scientific Societies |
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| 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 | ||
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Extramural Responsibilities |
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| 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 | ||
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Honors and Awards |
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| 1987 | Paul Langerhans Medal of the German Diabetes Society | |
| 1987 | John W. Cline Memorial Lecturer (sponsored by the American Cancer Society), UCLA | |
| 1987 | First Annual Ray A. and Robert L. Kroc Lecture, University of Massachusetts | |
| 1988 | Berthold Medal of the German Society for Endocrinology | |
| 1990 | Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization | |
| 1990 | Mildred Scheel Memorial Lecture, Modern Trends in Human Leukemia Conference, Hamburg | |
| 1991 | Prix Antoine Lacassagne from La Ligue Nationale Française Contre le Cancer, Paris, France | |
| 1996 | 11th Annual Ray A. and Robert L. Kroc Lecture, Joslin Diabetes Center, Boston, U.S.A. | |
| 1996 | Honorary Professor - Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China | |
| 1996-98 | Visiting Professor, Académie de Paris, Sorbonne, Paris, France | |
| 1997 | Gold Medal and “XXII Lorenzini” Annual Lecture, Fondazione Giovanni Lorenzini, Medical Science Foundation, Bari, Italy |
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| 1998 | German Cancer Prize of the German Cancer Society, Frankfurt, Germany | |
| 1999 | Ludwig Heilmeyer Lecture, The International Society of Gastroenterological Carcinogenesis, Ulm | |
| 2000 | Honorary Professor, University of Tübingen, Germany | |
| 2000 | Bruce F. Cain Memorial Award, American Association for Cancer Research | |
| 2000 | Elected Member of the Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina | |
| 2001 | Busenfreund, a prize awarded by mamazone – women and science against breast cancer e.V. | |
| 2001 | Robert-Koch Prize of the Robert-Koch-Foundation | |
| 2001 | International Fellow, Garvan Institute of Cancer Research, Sydney, Australia | |
| 2002 | Virchow Lecture, University of Würzburg, Germany | |
| 2002 | IJC-Meyenburg Lecture, University of Heidelberg, Germany | |
| 2003 | King Faisal International Prize for Medicine, King Faisal Foundation, Saudi Arabia | |
| 2003 | Meyer-Schwickerath Lecture, Society of Medical Science, Essen, Germany | |
| 2003 | Honorary Member of The World Innovation Foundation | |
| 2005 | Warburg Medal, Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (GBM), Germany | |
| 2005 | Elected Member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences | |
| 2005 | European BioBusiness Leadership Award, USC Marshall School of Business, U.S.A. | |
| 2005 | Clifford Prize for Cancer Research (also known as “Shiraz Prize”) awarded by the Institute of Medical and Veterinary Science, Adelaide, Australia |
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| 2005 | EMBO “Silver Lecture”, Candiolo, Italy | |
| 2006 | Deutsche Krebshilfe Preis 2005, Deutsche Krebshilfe (German Cancer Aid) e.V., Germany | |
| 2007 | ASMR Medal, The Australian Society for Medical Research, Sydney, Australia | |
| 2007 | Warren Alpert Prize, Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, U.S.A. (with Dennis Slamon, Michael Shepard, Robert Weinberg) |
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| 2007 | Karl Heinz Beckurts-Preis, Karl Heinz Beckurts-Stiftung, Garching, Germany | |
| 2007 | Prince Mahidol Award of Medicine, Prince Mahidol Foundation, Bangkok, Thailand | |
| 2008 | Pezcoller Foundation-AACR International Award for Cancer Research, Pezcoller Foundation, Trento, Italy | |
| 2008 | Bucher Lecture, 33rd FEBS Congress, Athens, Greece | |
| 2008 | Hamdan Award for Medical Research Excellence, Dubai, United Arab Emirates | |
| 2009 | Emanuel-Merck-Lectureship-Award, Merck KgaA and the University of Technology, Darmstadt, Germany | |
| 2009 | Sergio Lombroso Award in Cancer Research, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel | |
| 2009 | Laurea Honoris Causa (Dr. h.c.) in Medicine and Surgery, University of Chieti, Italy | |
| 2009 | Bundesverdienstkreuz 1. Klasse der Bundesrepublik Deutschland | |
| 2009 | Debrecen Award for Molecular Medicine, University of Debrecen, Hungary | |
| 2010 | Wolf Foundation Prize in Medicine, Wolf Foundation, Israel | |
| 2010 | MTTC Lifetime Achievement Award, ESMO, Madrid, Spain | |
| 2010 | GIST 2010 Hall of Fame Award, Life Raft Group, Wayne, NJ, USA | |
| 2010 | Ismar-Boas-Medaille, DGVS, Stuttgart, Germany | |
| 2012 | Doctor Honoris Causa (Dr. h.c.), University of Athens, Greece |
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| 2012 | Doctor Honoris Causa (Dr. h.c.), Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary | |
| 2012 | FEBS Lecture, EACR 22, IMPPC Barcelona, Spain | |
| 2012 | Lennox K Black International Prize for Excellence in Biomedical Research, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, USA | |
| 2012 | Election to the Hall of Fame of German Science, Manager Magazine, Essen, Germany | |
| 2013 | Elected Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences | |
| 2014 | CRRT International Cancer Research Award, Cancer Research Relief and Trust, Chennai | |
| 2014 | Elected fellow of the AACR Academy Class of 2014, American Association for Cancer Research, San Diego | |
| 2017 | Johann-Georg-Zimmermann Medal, Hannover, Germany | |