!!Franz Oesch - Curriculum Vitae
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Institute of Toxicology, University of Mainz, Obere Zahlbacher Str. 67, D-55131 Mainz, Germany\\
Born November 14, 1938 in Zurich, Switzerland\\
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__Education and Qualifications:__
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*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
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__Postgraduate Training and Post Held:__
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*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)
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__Main Professional and Research Interests:__
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Genotoxicity; Chemical carcinogenesis; Metabolism of drugs and other foreign compounds; Enzymatic control of reactive metabolites; Proliferation control
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__Membership of the Editorial Advisory Boards of Scientific Journals:\\
(Present and past)__
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* 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
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__Membership in Executive Committees of Scientific Societies:\\
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* 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)
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__Honorary Memberships in Scientific Societies:__
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* International Society for the Study of Xenobiotics (ISSX)
* German Society of Toxicology
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__Membership of Permanent Advisory commissions: \\
(Present and Past)__
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* 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
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__Prizes__
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* 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
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__Other Honours:__
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* 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