Manfred Schartl - Curriculum Vitae#

Education and Professional Experience

• 1973 - 1978 Studies in Biology, Dipl. Biol. Faculty of Biology, University of Gießen
  
• 1979 Teaching certificate (L3, Gymnasium) for Biology and Chemistry, Univ. Gießen
  
• 1980 Dr. rer. nat., University of Gießen
  
• 1988 Habilitation, Faculty of Biology, Ludwig-Maximilian-University, Munich
  
• 1978 - 1979 Instructor for Genetics, University of Gießen
  
• 1980 - 1983 Postdoctoral Fellow Department of Genetics, University of Gießen
  
• 1982 Postdoc research at the laboratory of Dr. R. C. Gallo, National Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
  
• 1983 - 1984 Lecturer (Hochschulassistent), Department of Genetics, University of Gießen
  
• 1985 - 1991 Research Group Leader, Gene Center at the Max-Planck-Institute for Biochemistry, Martinsried b. Munich
  
• 1991-2019 Full Professor (C4) for Biochemistry, Medical School, University of Würzburg
  
• January 1997 Offer Director at the Molecular Marine Biology Institute, Bergen, Norway. Declined.
  
• since 2001 Adjunct Professor for Experimental Cancer Research, University of Bergen, Norway
  
• 2005 - 2009 and 2012 - 2016 Vice-President of the German Genetics Society
  
• 2006 Offer Head of Department, National University of Singapore. Declined
  
• 2009 - 2011 President of the German Genetics Society (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Genetik)
  
• Since 2011 Member German Academy of Sciences (Leopoldina)
  
• 2015 Visiting Professor, Department of Biology, National University of Singapore
  
• 2016 - 2019 Visiting Professor, Department of Biology, Texas A&M University, Texas, USA
  
• Since 2019 Scholar in Residence, Xiphophorus Genetic Stock Center, Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas, USA
  
• Since 2020 Senior Research Professor, Medical School, University of Würzburg

Scientific Societies, Committees and Boards

• 1996 - 2007 Vice-chairman and Chairman of the Theodor-Boveri-Institute for Biosciences (Biocenter), Würzburg
  
• Since 1997 Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Sars International Centre for Marine Molecular Biology, Bergen, Norway
  
• 1999 - 2016 Member of the Advisory Board of the German Genetics Society
  
• Since 2002 Vice-Chairman Rudolf-Virchow-Centre for Experimental Biomedicine, Würzburg
  
• Since 2005 Member and chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board for the Centre of Molecular Biosciences, University of Goettingen
  
• 2009 - 2012 Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Institut de Génomique Fonctionnelle de Lyon, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France
  
• 2012 - 2015 Member of the "Structuring Commission of Medicine" of the state of Baden-Württemberg, Advisor to the Government
  
• Since 2013 Scientific Advisor of the Beijing Genome Institute, Hongkong
  
• Since 2015 President of the Physico Medica, Academy of Sciences, Würzburg
  
• Since 2019 Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Sars-Fang Centre for Molecular Marine Biology, Qingdao, China
  
• 2020 Member, Selection Committee for the International Prize of Biology, Japan Society for Promotion of Science

Project Management

• 1998 - 2001 Coordinator EU-FAIR Project “Improvement and Risk Assessment of Transgenic Technologies in Fish”
  
• 1996 - 2003 Vice-chairman of Coordination Committee SFB 465 “Development and Manipulation of Pluripotent Cells”, DFG
  
• Since 2001 Member of Coordination Committee and Vice-Chairman of the DFG Research Center for Molecular Medicine (Rudolf Virchow Center Würzburg)
  
• 2004 - 2014 Coordinator and Chairman of the Graduate and Research Programme “Organogenesis” (GK1048, DFG)
  
• 2004 - 2009 Chairman of Coordination Committee and Vice-Chairman of the SFB-Transregio 17 “Ras-dependent pathways in human cancer”, DFG
  
• Since 2020 Co-PI Xiphophorus Genetic Stock Center (NIH ORIP R24)

Awards

• 1991 Heisenberg Awardee, DFG (German Research Foundation)
  
• 1991 Jenkinson Lecture, Oxford University
  
• 2004 Doctor honoris causa, University of Bergen, Norway
  
• 2007 Prince Hitachi Prize for Comparative Oncology, Japan
  
• 2011 Ray-Chaudhuri Lecture, University of Varanasi, India
  
• 2015 NUSS Lecture, National University of Singapore, Singapore
  
• 2016 Faculty Fellow Hagler Institute for Advanced Study at Texas A&M University, USA

University Committees

• 2001 - 2015 Chairman of the Examination Committee for Bachelor and Master students in Biomedicine, University of Würzburg
  
• 2003 - 2013 Member of the Committee for Scientific and Strategic Development, Faculty of Biology, University of Würzburg
  
• 2005 - 2013 Member of the Committee for International Relations of the Univ. of Würzburg
  
• 2008 - 2012 Director of Research of the Comprehensive Cancer Center Mainfranken
  

Editorial Work

• 1986 - 2006 Associate Editor Diseases of Aquatic Organisms
  
• 1993 - 1996 Associate Editor Pigment Cell Research
  
• 1991 - 1999 Associate Editor Molecular Marine Biology and Biotechnology
  
• 1997 - 2016 Associate Editor Gene, 2011-2016 Executive Editor
  
• Since 1999 Section Editor Korean Journal of Biological Sciences
  
• Since 2004 Member of the Editorial Board of Zebrafish
  
• Since 2007 Editor in Chief of Sexual Development
  
• Since 2017 Member of the Advisory Board of the European Zoological Journal
  
• Since 2019 Member of the Editorial Board of Marine Life Science & Technology

Grants and fellowships:

European Molecular Biology Organization, Human Frontier Science Program, International Union against Cancer, Medical Research Council of Great Britain, National Research Council of Norway, National Science Foundation (USA), French National Research Association, German National Research Fund Organization (DFG), Swiss National Fund, Austrian National Research Council, and other funding organizations.

Scientific journals:

Cancer Research, Cytogenetics and Cell Genetics, Current Biology, Development, Developmental Biology, EMBO Journal, Gene, J. of Investigative Dermatology, Mechanisms of Development, Molecular and General Genetics, Molecular Marine Biology and Biotechnology, Nature, Nature Genetics, Nature Biotechnology, Nature Reviews, Oncogene, Pigment Cell Research, PLoS Genetics, PLoS Biology, PNAS, Science, Zebrafish

Editorial Advisor Current Biology, PLoS Biology, PLoS Genetics, BMC Biology

Memberships

Deutsche Krebs-Gesellschaft (Arbeitsgemeinschaft Experimentelle Krebsforschung), European Pigment Cell Society, Deutsche Zoologische Gesellschaft, German Genetics Society, Senckenberg Research Society, Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (GBM), Physico-Medica Würzburg (local academy, chairman)