Thomas Graf#
| Membership Number: | 1047 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CELL & DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 1991 |
| Main Country of Residence: | SPAIN |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.crg.eu/en/programmes-groups/hematopoietic-stem-cells-transdifferentiation-and-reprogramming |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2007-2013 Research Professor, Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies, Spain
- since 2006 ICREA Research Professor and Group Leader, Centre for Genomic Regulation, Barcelona, Spain
- 1998-2006 Professor of Developmental and Molecular Biology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY
- 1983-1998 Programme Coordinator and Senior Scientist, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg
- 1978-1983 Section Head and Professor, Institute of Virology, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg
- 1975-1978 Associate Professor, Max Planck Institute of Virology, Tuebingen
- 1973-1975 Assistant Professor, Max Planck Institute of Virology, Tuebingen
- 1972-1973 Postdoctoral Fellow (Fellowship from the “Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Fund Research”) and Instructor, Dept. of Microbiology and Immunology, Duke University, Medical Center, Durham, N.C., U.S.A.
Fields of Scholarship
- Macrophage
- Cancer biology
- Reprogramming
- Bioinformatics and computational biology
- Cloning
- Genetic engineering
- Immunology
- Cancer cells
- Gene expression
- Cancer cell line
- Cell biology
- Cell culture
- iPS
- Transcription
- Differentiation
- RNA
- DNA
- Molecular biology
Honours and Awards
- 1989 Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize
- 1983 Prize of the Wilhelm Warner Foundation (Hamburg) for Cancer Research
- Leukemia Research Award of the Kind-Philipp-Stiftung in Marburg
- Prize of the German Society for Microbiology and Hygiene
- Member of the Academia Europaea
