Franz Oesch - Curriculum Vitae#

Institute of Toxicology, University of Mainz, Obere Zahlbacher Str. 67, D-55131 Mainz, Germany
Born November 14, 1938 in Zurich, Switzerland


Education and Qualifications:

• 1961-1969 University of Fribourg, Switzerland: Study of Chemistry and Biology
• 1965 Lizentiat in Chemistry and Biology, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
• 1969 Ph.D. (Dr. rer. nat.), University of Fribourg, Switzerland
• 1973 Privatdozent for Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Basel, Switzerland

Postgraduate Training and Post Held:

• 1965-1969 Junior (65-66), then Senior (66*69) Assistant at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland
• 1969-1971 Fellow of the Visiting Program of the US Health Service, NIAMD, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
• 1972-1974 Wissenschaftlicher Adjunkt (Senior Research Associate), Department of Pharmacology, Biozentrum of the University of Basel, Switzerland
• 1974-1981 Professor (C3) of Pharmacology and Toxicology; Head, Section on Molecular Pharmacology, University of Mainz, Germany
• 1981-1983 Professor (C4) of Pharmacology and Toxicology; Chairman, Department of Molecular Pharmacology, University of Mainz
• 1983 on Professor (C4) of Pharmacology and Toxicology
• 1983-2004 Director, Institute of Toxicology, University of Mainz

April 2004 on In “active” retirement (still project leader of some grant projects)
Main Professional and Research Interests:

Genotoxicity; Chemical carcinogenesis; Metabolism of drugs and other foreign compounds; Enzymatic control of reactive metabolites; Proliferation control

Membership of the Editorial Advisory Boards of Scientific Journals:
(Present and past)

• Archives Internationales de Pharmacodynamie et de Thérapie
• Archives of Toxicology
• Biochemical Pharmacology
• Carcinogenesis
• Chemico-Biological Interactions
• Comprehensive Toxicology
• Drug Metabolism and Disposition
• Drug Metabolism Reviews
• European Journal of Cancer
• Experientia
• Journal of Biochemical Toxicology
• Mutation Research
• Naunyn-Schmiedeberg´s Archives of Pharmacology (Editor)
• Pharmacology and Toxicology
• Xenobiotica

Membership in Executive Committees of Scientific Societies:
(Present and Past)

• German Society of Pharmacology, Section on Toxicology (Chairman)
• German Cancer Society, Section of Experimental Cancer Research (Chairman)
• International Society for the Study of Xenobiotics (ISSX) (President)
• International Union of Pharmacology (IUPHAR), Section on Toxicology (Chairman)
• International Union of Pharmacology (IUPHAR), Section on Drug Metabolism (Councillor)
• International Union of Toxicology (IUTOX) (Councillor)

Honorary Memberships in Scientific Societies:

• International Society for the Study of Xenobiotics (ISSX)
• German Society of Toxicology

Membership of Permanent Advisory commissions:
(Present and Past)

• Committee of the German Society of Pharmacology for conferring the title "Toxicologist DGPT"
• Advisory board of the priority research program of the German Research Council "Mechanisms of the Toxic Effects of Drugs and Exogenous Substances"
• Advisory committee of the special research area "Experimental and Clinical Tumor Research", Essen, Germany
• Advisory committee of the special research area "Cancer Research", Heidelberg, Germany
• Advisory committee of the special research area "Toxic materials from incomplete combustion", Darmstadt, Germany
• Advisory committee of the special research area "Molecular mechanisms of carcinogenic primary events", Würzburg
• Advisory committee of the special research area "Molecular and cellular mediators of the toxicity of exogenous chemical compounds", Düsseldorf, Germany
• Scientific Advisory Board of the Swiss Institute for Experimental Cancer Research, Epalinges s./Lausanne
• Expert committee on toxic substances, Swiss Health Ministry, Bern
• Expert of the European Commission Science, Research, Development
• Senate Commission for Cancer Research of the German Research Council
• Steering Committee for the German*American Cooperation in Cancer Research
• Steering Committee for the German*Japan Cooperation in Cancer Research
• Scientific Advisory Board of the CEIMED (Centre d´Études des Interférences des Médicaments et autres Xénobiotiques sur les Membranes et les Systèmes Biologiques), Nancy, France
• Toxicology Steering Committee of the European Science Foundation
• Expert committee "Alternatives to experimentations with animals" of the Swiss National Science Foundation, Bern
• "Expert Pharmacologue Toxicologue Specialisé en Cancérogénèse et Mutagénèse" of the Ministère de la Santé of France
• Scientific Advisory Board of the Central Institute of Occupational Medicine, Hamburg, Germany
• Environmental Toxicology Board of the State Rheinland*Pfalz, Germany
• Executive body of the Humboldt Foundation for conferring Humboldt Fellowships and Humboldt Prizes
• Expert for toxicology of the "Wissenschaftsrat" (Advisory body of the German Federal Government for research and development)
• AEGL committee of the National Academy of Sciences USA
• Expert committee to develop IARC Monograph on ‘Cadmium, Nickel, Some Epoxides, Miscellaneous Industrial Chemicals and General Considerations on Volatile Anaesthetics
• Expert committee to develop IARC Monograph on ‘1,3*Butadiene, Ethylene Oxide and Vinyl Halides (Vinyl Fluoride, Vinyl Chloride and Vinyl Bromide)’
• Expert committee to develop IARC Monograph on ‘Some Industrial and Cosmetic Dyes, and Related Exposures’
• EU ECVAM Expert Committee on the development of a quality assessment tool for toxicological data

Prizes

• Professor Max Cloetta Prize 1977
• Robert Koch Prize 1982
• GUM Prize 1985
• Prize of the Rheinisch*Westfälische Academy of Sciences 1989
• German Cancer Prize 1990
• Prize for Scientific Innovation of the State Rheinland*Pfalz 1999

Other Honours:

• Most Quoted Scientists: belonging to the top 0.1 % (Current Contents No. 41, October 12, 1981)
• Walter Straub Memorial Lecture, Munich 1983
• The Biochemical Society 75th Anniversary Symposium Honoured Lecture, London, 1986
• Keynote Lecture, International ISSX Meeting, Amsterdam, 1991
• Otto Warburg Memorial Lecture, Berlin, 1992
• Election to the Academia Europea, 1992
• International Society for the Study of Xenobiotics Award, 1993
• Novum Lecture, Karolinska Institute, Novum*Stockholm, 1994
• MDC-Lecture, Max Delbrück Centrum für Molekulare Medizin, Berlin, 1995
• International Union Against Cancer Roll of Honour, 1996
• IEM Lecture, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, 1997
• Keynote Review, International EAPCCT Congress, Zürich, 1998
• Keynote Lecture, European Workshop on Drug Metabolism, Kopenhagen, 1998
• Election to the National Academy of Sciences of Germany 1999
• Gerhard Zbinden Memorial Lecture Award, 2000
• Werner Heisenberg*Medaille, 2000
• Salk Lecture, Salk Institute, La Jolla, 2002
• Election to the National Academy of Medicine of France, 2008
• More than 700 publications, many in top journals (Science, Nature, PNAS, J Cell Biol,EMBO J, FASEB J, Cancer Res, Oncogene, …)
• More than 500 invited lectures