Franz Oesch#
| Membership Number: | 1295 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSIOLOGY & NEUROSCIENCE |
| Elected: | 1992 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
Present and Previous Positions
- April 2004 on In “active” retirement (still project leader of some grant projects)
- 1983 - 2004 Director, Institute of Toxicology, University of Mainz
- 1983 on Professor (C4) of Pharmacology and Toxicology
- 1981 - 1983 Professor (C4) of Pharmacology and Toxicology; Chairman, Department of Molecular Pharmacology, University of Mainz
- 1974 - 1981 Professor (C3) of Pharmacology and Toxicology; Head, Section on Molecular Pharmacology, University of Mainz, Germany
- 1972 - 1974 Wissenschaftlicher Adjunkt (Senior Research Associate), Department of Pharmacology, Biozentrum of the University of Basel, Switzerland
- 1969 - 1971 Fellow of the Visiting Program of the US Health Service, NIAMD, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
- 1965-1969 Junior (65-66), then Senior (66-69) Assistant at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland
Fields of Scholarship
- Genotoxicity
- Chemical carcinogenesis
- Metabolism of drugs and other foreign compounds
- Enzymatic control of reactive metabolites
- Proliferation control
Honours and Awards
- 1977 Professor Max Cloetta Prize
- 1982 Robert Koch Prize
- 1985 GUM Prize
- 1989 Prize of the Rheinisch-Westfälische Academy of Sciences
- 1990 German Cancer Price
- 1999 Prize for Scientific Innovation of the State Rheinland-Pfalz
- Most Quoted Scientists: belonging to the top 0.1 % (Current Contents No. 41, October 12, 1981)
- 1983 Walter Straub Memorial Lecture, Munich
- 1986 The Biochemical Society 75th Anniversary Symposium Honoured Lecture, London
- 1991 Keynote Lecture, International ISSX Meeting, Amsterdam
- 1992 Otto Warburg Memorial Lecture, Berlin
- 1992 Election to the Academia Europea
- 1993 International Society for the Study of Xenobiotics Award
- 1994 Novum Lecture, Karolinska Institute, Novum-Stockholm
- 1995 MDC-Lecture, Max Delbrück Centrum für Molekulare Medizin, Berlin
- 1996 International Union Against Cancer Roll of Honour
- 1997 IEM Lecture, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm
- 1998 Keynote Review, International EAPCCT Congress, Zürich
- 1998 Keynote Lecture, European Workshop on Drug Metabolism, Kopenhagen
- 1999 Election to the National Academy of Sciences of Germany
- 2000 Gerhard Zbinden Memorial Lecture Award
- 2000 Werner Heisenberg-Medaille
- 2002 Salk Lecture, Salk Institute, La Jolla
- 2008 Election to the National Academy of Medicine of France
