Thomas Efferth#
| Membership Number: | 6603 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CLINICAL & VETERINARY SCIENCE |
| Elected: | 2023 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | https://ak-efferth.pharmazie.uni-mainz.de/people/ |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-2637-1681 |
Present and Previous Positions
- Since 2021 Director, Institute of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Sciences, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz
- Since 2009 Full Professor, Chair of the Department of Pharmaceutical Biology, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz
- 2007 - 2009 Associate professorship (apl.), University of Heidelberg
- 2005 - 2009 Research group leader and coordinator International Ph.D. Program, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
- 2002 - 2005 Coordinator, International Master Program Molecular and Cellular Biology, Center for Molecular Biology Heidelberg (ZMBH), Heidelberg, Germany
- 1999 - 2002 Scientific staff, University of Erlangen and University of Mainz
- 1997 Habilitation
- 1992 - 1999 Scientific staff, Technical University Aachen
- 1990 - 1992 Postdoctoral fellow, German Cancer Research Center (DFKZ), Heidelberg
- 1986 - 1990 Ph.D. student, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg
- 1980 - 1986 Study of Biology, Technical University Darmstadt
Fields of Scholarship
- Transcriptomic-based network pharmacology
- Cancer research
- Drug repurposing
- Drug resistance mechanisms
- Predictive and prognostic biomarkers for personalized medicine
- Infectious diseases (COVID-19)
- Bioinformatic pharmacology
- Mental diseases (posttraumatic stress syndrome)
- Exotoxicology (hormonal effects of microplastic compounds)
- Toxicology of synthetic and biogenic drugs
Honours and Awards
- 2022 Visiting professor (“professional visitor”), McLean Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- 2022 Honorary professor, Vellore Institute of Technology
- 2020 Top 2% in the Stanford University worldwide citation ranking 2019 (and update 2022) of all scientists and scientific disciplines (Ioannidis et al., PLoS Biol 2020;18:e3000918. https://data.mendeley.com/datasets/btchxktzyw/2
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- 2019 Honorary professor, Hong Kong Baptist University
- 2018 Full member, World Academy of Sciences (WAS), Greece
- 2018 Honorary adjunct professor, Chinese University of Hong Kong
- 2017 Qihuang International Award, Chinese Society for Chinese Medicine (conferred by the Ministry of Science and Technology, China)
- 2015 Honorary professor, Zhejiang Medical University, Hangzhou
- 2011 Award of the Central European Society for Anticancer Drug Research (CESAR) for Translational research in the development of antitumoral agents
- 2008 Citizen Medal (“Bürgerplakette”) of the City of Heidelberg, Germany
- 2006 Dr. Wilmar Schwabe Award, Society for Medicinal Plant Research (presented in Helsinki, Finland)
- 2006 Honorary professor, Northeast Forestry University, Harbin
- 1991 Ludolf Krehl Award for PhD thesis (1st place), Southwest-German Society for Medicine
