!!Klaus Rajewsky - Curriculum vitae
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__Education__
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*1956-1962 University of Frankfurt/Main and Munich, Medicine, Chemistry
*1959-1961 Institute of Chemistry, University of Frankfurt/Main, M.D.Thesis (Supervisors: Th. Wieland and G. Pfleiderer)
*1962 Medical examinations, M.D.
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__Positions__
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*1962-1963 Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institut Pasteur, Paris, (P. Grabar's laboratory)
*1964-1966 Research assistant at the Institute of Genetics, University of Cologne, in U. Henning's Laboratory. Since 1966 Head of the newly established immunology unit at the same institute.
*1969 EMBO Senior Fellow at the National Institute for Medical Research London, in Mitchison's laboratory.
*1970-2001 Professor of Molecular Genetics, Science Faculty, University of Cologne. Member of the Board of Directors of the Institute for Genetics.
*1996-2001 Part-time appointment, Programme Coordinator, EMBL Mouse Biology Programme, Monterotondo, Italy
*1999-2000 Bert L. and N. Kuggie Vallee Visiting Professor, Dept. of Pathology, Harvard Medical School
*2001-present Senior Investigator, CBR Institute for Biomedical Research
*2001-present Professor of Pathology, Harvard Medical School
*2006-2011 Fred S. Rosen Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School
*2011- present Researcher, Max-Delbrück-Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin-Buch 

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__Other Activities__
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Foreign Member of the Basel Institute for Immunology (1970-1971), Member of the
Scientific Advisory Boards of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (1977-1979;
1995-), the Gesellschaft für Naturforscher und Ärzte (1979-1981), the Max Planck
Institute for Immunobiology, Freiburg, F.R.G. (1983-1987), the Immunology Department
of the Institut Pasteur, Paris (1984) and the Cancer Research Institute, New York (1987-).
Foreign Member of the Conseil de la Biologie of the Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris
(1987-). Chairman of the Symposium Committee of the International Union of
Immunological Societies (1974-1977) and of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Centre
d'Immunologie de Marseille-Luminy (1985-1992). Member of the EMBO Council and
EMBO Fund Committee (1987-1990). Member of the Scientific and Technical Advisory
Committee of the UNDP/World Bank/WHO Special Programme for Research and
Training in Tropical Diseases (1990-1994). Member of the Advisory Board of the Robert
Koch Center for Research in Autoimmune Diseases at the Weizmann Institute,
Rehovot/Israel (1993-2000) and the Scientific Advisory Board of the ZMBH (Center for
Molecular Biology), University of Heidelberg (1994-). Member of the External Advisory
Board of the Centro de Biologia Molecular "Severo Ochoa", Madrid (1995-1996), the
International Advisory Board of Ribs (Research Institute for Biological Sciences, Science
University of Tokyo (1995-), the Scientific Advisory Board (SAC) of the German
Rheumatism Research Centre (DRFZ), Berlin (1997-) and of the Umeå Center for
Molecular Medicine (UCMM) (1999-2002), the Scientific Advisory Board of the RIKEN
Institute for Allergy and Immunology (2005 -), the Oklahoma Medical Research
Foundation (2005 -2007) and the Scientific Advisory Board of the Excellece Cluster
“Stress and Aging“ at the University of Cologne (2007- )
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Member of the Executive Committee of the "European Journal of Immunology" (1971-
1991), of the Editorial Boards of "Immunogenetics" (1974-1982), "Cell Biophysics"
(1979-1982), "Annales d'Immunologie" (1980-1988), "Hoppe Seyler's Zeitschrift für
Physiologische Chemie" (1978-1986), "The EMBO Journal" (1982-1986; 1995-1997),
"Journal of Molecular and Cellular Immunology" (1982-1990), "International
Immunology" (1989-), Proceedings of the Royal Society (Series B ) (1990-1991), Cell
(1992-), the Journal of Experimental Medicine (1992-), Current Opinion in Immunology
(1993-), Immunity (1994-1997), Mouse Knockouts and Mutants (1996-), Genes and
Function (1996-1997) and Molecular Medicine (1995-2003).
Member of the Gesellschaft für Immunologie, British Society for Immunology and the
Gesellschaft für Biologische Chemie.
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__Special Lectures:__
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The Dan Campbell Lecture, Asilomar, January 1984; Keynote address, Keystone
Symposia on B Cell Immunobiology and Human Disease and Molecular Aspects of B
Lymphocyte Differentiation, February 1993; Richard Gershon Lecture, Yale Medical
School, New Haven, May 1993; Ciba Geigy Lecture, The Randall Institute, King's
College London, May 1993; Naturwissenschaft Aktuell, Carl Friedrich von Siemens
Foundation, Munich, July 1993; University Lecture, Southwestern Medical School,
Dallas, April 1994; Leskowitz Lecture, Tufts University, Boston, April 1994; GFMLecture,
Institute for Molecular Genetics, University of Heidelberg, June 1995;
Engelhardt Lecture, Engelhardt Institute, Moscow, December 1995; Tadeusz J. Wiktor
Memorial Lecture, The Wistar Institute, Philadelphia, December 1995; Adriano Buzzati-
Traverso Lecture, Institute of Cell Biology, CNR, Rome, November 1995; Jim McGinnis
Memorial Lecture, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, May 1966; Beirne B.
Carter Memorial Lecture in Immunology, Center for Immunology Research, University
of Virginia, Charlottesville, January 1997; The Dunham Lectures, Harvard University,
Boston, April 1997; Paul Ehrlich Lecture, Charité, Berlin, December 1997; The Paul E.
Lacy Lecture, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, April 1998;
Distinguished Seminar Series, National Jewish Medical and Research Center, Denver,
April 1998; First Karl Lennert Lecture, IX Meeting European Association for
Haematopathology, Leiden, April 1998; The Henry Kunkel Society Annual Lecture, New
York, April 1998; Guest Lecture, The International Investigative Dermatology Meeting,
Cologne, May 1998; Main Lecture, XXVI Annual Meeting of the Italian Group of
Cooperation in Immunology, Viterbo, June 1998; Pierre Grabar Lecture, Annual
Congress French Society for Immunology, Paris, November 1998; Zoltan Ovary Lecture,
New York University, April 1999; Dean's and Solomon A. Beron Memorial Lecture,
Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, April 1999; The Henry G. Kunkel Lecture,
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, April 1999; AAI Distinguished
Lecture, Washington DC, April 1999; Keynote address, FASEB Summer Research
Conference on Hematological Malignancies", Vermont, July 1999; Rose Lieberman
Lecture, NIH, Bethesda, April 2002; Weiser Lecture, Seattle, June 2002; Georges Köhler
Lecture, Freiburg, July 2002. Bob Smith Lecture, Houston, April 2003; Marian Koshland
Lecture, Chicago, May 2003; Heidelberger-Kabat Lecture, Columbia University, New
York, 2004; Keynote Lecture, Autumn Immunology Conference, Chicago, Nov 2007.
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__Honors and Awards__
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*Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization
*Membre d'Honneur de la Société Française d'Immunologie (1981)
*Member of the Rheinisch-Westfälische Akademie der Wissenschaften (1981)
*Honorary Member of the American Association of Immunologists (1983)
*Founding Member of the Academia Europea (1988)
*Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences of the U.S.A. (1994)
*Chaire Européenne du Collège de France, Paris (1995-1996)
*Member of the Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina (1995)
*Doctor honoris causa of the University René Descartes, Paris (1998)
*First Honorary Member of the Gesellschaft fuer Genetik, Germany (2001)
*Foreign Member of the American Academy of Arts and Science (2001)
*Foreign Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences (2003)
*Foreign Member of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences (2003)
*Honorary Doctorate, J.W. von Goethe Unversity, Frankfurt/Main (2004)
*Avery Landsteiner Award (1977)
*Behring-Kitasato Prize (1994)
*Robert Pfleger Prize (1994)
*Humboldt Research Award (1994)
*Rabbi Shai Shacknai Memorial Prize, Hebrew University (1995)
*Robert Koch Prize (1996)
*Max-Planck-Research Award (1996)
*Dr. Albert-Wander-Memorial Prize, Bern University (1996)
*UCL Prize Lecture in Clinical Science (1997)
*Körber Prize for European Science (1997)
*Behring-Heidelberger Award, American Association of Immunologists (1999)
*Prize of the German Cancer Aid (Krebshilfe) (2002)
*Merit Award, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, NIH (2003)
*Brupbacher Prize for Cancer Research (2005)
*Novartis Prize for Basic Immunology (2007)
*Emil von Behring Prize (2008)