Klaus Rajewsky#
| Membership Number: | 107 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CELL & DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 1988 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.mdc-berlin.de/36143067/en/research/research_teams/immune_regulation_and_cancer |
Present and Previous Positions
- since 2011 Researcher, Max-Delbrück-Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin-Buch
- 2006 - 2011 Fred S. Rosen Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School
- 2001 Professor of Pathology, Harvard Medical School
- 2001 Senior Investigator, CBR Institute for Biomedical Research
- 1999 - 2000 Bert L. and N. Kuggie Vallee Visiting Professor, Dept. of Pathology, Harvard Medical School
- 1996 - 2001 Part-time appointment, Programme Coordinator, EMBL Mouse Biology Programme, Monterotondo, Italy
- 1970 - 2001 Professor of Molecular Genetics, Science Faculty, University of Cologne. Member of the Board of Directors of the Institute for Genetics
- 1969 EMBO Senior Fellow at the National Institute for Medical Research London, in Mitchison's laboratory
- 1964 - 1966 Research assistant at the Institute of Genetics, University of Cologne, in U. Henning's Laboratory. Since 1966 Head of the newly established immunology unit at the same institute
- 1962 - 1963 Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institut Pasteur, Paris, (P. Grabar's laboratory)
Fields of Scholarship
- Immunology
- Targeted mutagenesis in mice
- Mouse models of human lymphomas
Honours and Awards
- Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization
- 1981 Membre d'Honneur de la Société Française d'Immunologie
- 1981 Member of the Rheinisch-Westfälische Akademie der Wissenschaften
- 1983 Honorary Member of the American Association of Immunologists
- 1988 Founding Member of Academia Europea
- 1994 Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences of the U.S.A.
- 1995 - 1996 Chaire Européenne du Collège de France, Paris
- 1995 Member of the Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina
- 1998 Doctor honoris causa of the University René Descartes, Paris
- 2001 First Honorary Member of the Gesellschaft fuer Genetik, Germany
- 2001 Foreign Member of the American Academy of Arts and Science
- 2003 Foreign Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences
- 2003 Foreign Member of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences
- 2004 Honorary Doctorate, J.W. von Goethe Unversity, Frankfurt/Main
- 1977 Avery Landsteiner Award
- 1994 Behring-Kitasato Prize
- 1994 Robert Pfleger Prize
- 1994 Humboldt Research Award
- 1995 Rabbi Shai Shacknai Memorial Prize, Hebrew University
- 1996 Robert Koch Prize
- 1996 Max-Planck-Research Award
- 1996 Dr. Albert-Wander-Memorial Prize, Bern University
- 1997 UCL Prize Lecture in Clinical Science
- 1997 Körber Prize for European Science
- 1999 Behring-Heidelberger Award, American Association of Immunologists
- 2002 Prize of the German Cancer Aid (Krebshilfe)
- 2003 Merit Award, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, NIH
- 2005 Brupbacher Prize for Cancer Research
- 2007 Novartis Prize for Basic Immunology
- 2008 Emil von Behring Prize
- 2009 William B. Coley Award
- 2010 Ernst Jung Gold Medal for Medicine
- 2011 European Resuscitation Council, Advanced Grant
