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Prof. Dr.

Ralf Bartenschlager

Project: A02

Academic Education and University Degrees
1998
Habilitation in Virology, University of Mainz, Germany; mentor: Prof. Dr. Matthias J. Reddehase
1987 - 1990
Ph.D. thesis, Molecular Biology, Center for Molecular Biology, Heidelberg, Germany, (Grade: summa cum laude) supervised by Prof. Dr. Heinz Schaller
1986 - 1987
Diploma work, Biology, Center for Molecular Biology, Heidelberg, Germany, supervised by Prof. Dr. Heinz Schaller
1981 - 1987
Study of Biology at Heidelberg University, Germany

Professional Career
Since 2014
Head of the Division “Virus-induced carcinogenesis”, German Cancer Research Center Heidelberg, Germany
Since 2002
Full professor (C4) for “Molecular Virology”, Heidelberg University, Germany
2000 - 2002
Full Professor for “Molecular Virology”, University of Mainz, Germany
1994 - 1998
Independent group leader at the Institute for Virology, University of Mainz, Germany
1991 - 1993
Postdoc and leader of the HCV program “Central research Unit”, Hoffmann-LaRoche AG Basel, Switzerland
Address
Department of Infectious Deseases, Molecular Virology
Medical Faculty, Heidelberg University
Im Neuenheimer Feld 344
69120 Heidelberg
eMail
ralf.bartenschlager@med.uni-heidelberg.de
Awards and Appointments
2021
M. W. Beijerinck Virology Prize of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
Since 2020
President German Society of Virology
2019
Prince Mahidol Award for Medicine
2019
McGuigan Prize for Distinguished Work in Drug Discovery
2019
Heinrich-Pette Lecture
2018-2019
President of the German Society for the Study of Liver Diseases (GASL)
Since 2017
Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
2017
Hector Science Award
Since 2016
Speaker Collaborative Research Center 179 "Determinants and dynamics of elimination versus persistance of hepatitis virus infection"
2016
Lasker-Award
2016
European Virology Award
2015
Robert-Koch Prize
Since 2014
Speaker of Research Program “Infection, Inflammation and Cancer” at the DKFZ, Heidelberg
Since 2013
Member of the Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina
2013-2019
Co-coordinator DZIF-TTU Hepatitis
2013
Lautenschläger Research Prize
2009-2015
Speaker DFG Research Unit 1202 “Mechanisms of persistence of hepatotropic viruses”
2008-2016
Member, DFG Fachkollegium 204 (Microbiology, Virology and Immunology)
2008
Behring Lecture
2007-2019
Steering committee member of the Cluster of Excellence ‘CellNetworks’
2006
Aschoff Medal from the Medical Society Freiburg
2002
William Prusoff Young Investigator Award from the International Society for Antiviral Research
2001
Löffler-Frosch Preis of the Society for Virology
2000
Robert Koch Förderpreis of the Bergstadt Clausthal-Zellerfeld
1990
Award for the best PhD thesis from the Society for Molecular Biological Research Heidelberg