Arndt Borkhardt#
| Membership Number: | 7339 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | BASIC AND CLINICAL TRANSLATIONAL SCIENCES |
| Affiliated section(s): | CELL & DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2025 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
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| ORCID: | 0000-0002-6121-4737 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2022 - present Chairman of the European/ International I-BFM Study Groups
- 2006 - present Full Professor (W3), Head of Department for Pediatric Oncology, Hematology and Clinical Immunology, Duesseldorf,
- Germany
- 2019 - 2022 Chair of the European/International I-BFM Genetic Variation Committee
- 2016 - 2021 Director of the Center for Biological and Medical Research (BMFZ), Heinrich-Heine-University, Duesseldorf, Germany
- 2007 - 2016 Vice Director of the Center for Biological and Medical Research, Heinrich-Heine-University Duesseldorf, Germany
- 20003 - 2006 Full Professor (C3), Head of Department for Pediatric Oncology/Hematology, Center for Child and Adolescence
- Health, Ludwig-Maximillians-University Munich
- 1998 - 2003 Senior physician at the Center for Child and Adolescence Health, University Hospital, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen,
- Germany
- 1991 - 1998 Resident physician at the Center for Child and Adolescence Health, University Hospital, Justus-Liebig-University
- Giessen, Germany
- 1991 - 1992 Postdoctoral research fellow at the Laboratory for Molecular Biology at the Center for Child and Adolescence Health,
- University Hospital, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, Germany
Fields of Scholarship
- Genetic predisposition
- Aneuploidy, genetic variation
- Immunology
- Acute lymphoblastic leukemia
- Childhood cancer
Honours and Awards
- 2005 Carus Prize of the City Schweinfurt, Germany
- 2005 Carus-Medal of the Leopoldina, Germany
- 2001 Research Prize of the DGHO (German Society of Hematology and Oncology), Germany
- 1998 Prize of Kind-Philip-Research Foundation, Germany
- 1998 Adalbert-Czerny-Prize of the German Society for Child and Adolescence Medicine, Germany
- 1991 - 1992 Molecular Genetics Research Scholarship of the Stüssgen-Schmidt Foundation, Germany
