Christoph Klein#
| Membership Number: | 7533 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | BASIC AND CLINICAL TRANSLATIONAL SCIENCES |
| Affiliated section(s): | CELL & DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2026 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | https://ccrc-hauner.de/ccrc |
| ORCID: | 0000-0003-0956-0445 |
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Present and Previous Positions
- 2011 - present Director Dr. von Hauner Children's Hospital LMU & LMU Klinikum Munich, Munich Germany
- 2008 - 2011 Director, Department of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover Germany
- 2000 - 2008 Associate Professor (W2), Department of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, Hannover Medical School
- 1998 - 2000 Instructor in Pediatrics, Boston Childrens Hospital, Harvard Medical School USA
- 1995 - 1998 Clinical Fellow, Boston Childrens Hospital, Harvard Medical School USA
- 1993 - 1995 Resident Physician, University Childrens Hospital Freiburg, Germany
- 1991 - 1993 Resident Physician, Hôpital Necker Enfants Malades, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France
- 1990 - 1991 Intern, Dr. von Hauner Children's Hospital, LMU Klinikum Munich, Germany
Fields of Scholarship
- Hematopoiesis
- Inborn errors of immunity
- Innate immunity
- Functional genomics
- Gene therapy
- Clinical pediatrics
Honours and Awards
- 1997 American Society of Hematology Scholar Award
- 2006 Yamagiwa-Yoshida Memorial Award (UICC), Japan
- 2006 Kind-Philipp-Prize, German Society for Pediatric Hematology/Oncology
- 2007 GlaxoSmithKline Prize for Clinical Research
- 2007 Rudolf-Schön-Prize, Hannover Medical School
- 2007 Adalbert-Czerny-Prize, German Society of Pediatrics
- 2010 Gottfried-Wilhelm-Leibniz Prize, German Research Society
- 2011 European Research Council Advanced Grant EXPLORE
- 2011 Eva-Luise Köhler Prize for Rare Disease Research
- 2011 Paul Martini Award for Clinical Pharmacology
- 2011 William-Dameshek Prize, American Society Hematology
- 2013 Hector Science Award and Elected Member, Hector Fellow Academy
- 2014 Elected member, American Society of Clinical Investigation
- 2014 Honorary Professorship, Isfahan University Medical Sciences, Iran
- 2015 Cusanus Prize for social responsibility
- 2016 Khwarizmi International Award, Iranian Research Organization for Science and Technology
- 2016 Science Foundation Award by the German Association of University Professors
- 2021 Co-Leader of the German Center for Child and Adolescent Health
- 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 Highly cited researcher (Clarivate)
