Focus of the Commitment in the German Ethics Council
- Systems Biology
- Systems Medicine
- Personalised Medicine
- Basic Research
Contact for Press Enquiries on the Following Topics
- Systems Biology
- Systems Medicine
Born in 1964
Professional Background
- Since 2011 Professor for Systems Biology of Signal Transduction at the University of Heidelberg
- Since 2007 Head of the Division of Systems Biology of Signal Transduction at the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) in Heidelberg
- 2006 Refusal of a call for a professorship in Quantitative Systems Biology from Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg (Sweden)
- 2004 Venia legendi in Cell Biology at the University of Heidelberg
- 2003-2007 Leader of the Theodor Boveri Junior Research Group at the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) in Heidelberg
- 2003 Refusal of a call for a professorship from the Technical University of Aachen
- 2000 Habilitation and venia legendi in Molecular Biology and Genetics at the University of Freiburg
- 1996-2003 Group Leader of a Hans Spemann Junior Research Group at the Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology in Freiburg
- 1993-1996 Postdoctoral Fellow at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research in Cambridge (USA)
- 1992-1996 Postdoctoral Fellow at the Harvard Medical School in Boston (USA)
- 1992 PhD (Dr. rer. nat.) at the University of Heidelberg
- 1983-1988 Studies at the Universities of Bayreuth and Heidelberg and Diploma in Biology at the University of Heidelberg
Memberships
- Since 2016 Member of the German Ethics Council
- Member of the German Society for Cell Biology
- Member of the German Society of Proteome Research
- Member of the German Society for Lung Research
- Member of the Executive Committee of the funding programs "Artificial Liver" and "LiSyM" issued by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research
- Member of the Scientific Council of the Centre for Systems Biology in Groningen/Netherlands
- Member of the Scientific Council BREAST in Dublin/Ireland
- Chair of the Executive Women of the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) in Heidelberg
- Member of the Selection Committee of the Karl-Heinz Beckurts Prize
- Member of the SystemsX.ch Expert Group
- 2007-2015 Member of the Board of Trustees of the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) in Heidelberg
Distinctions
- 2012 Member of the Hinterzarten Circle for Cancer Research of the German Research Foundation
- 1997 FEBS Anniversary Award
Publications (Selection)
- Mueller, S. et al. (2015): T160-phosphorylated CDK2 defines threshold for HGF dependent proliferation in primary hepatocytes. In: Molecular Systems Biology, 11, 795.
- Bachmann, J. et al. (2011): Division of labor by dual feedback regulators controls JAK2/STAT5 signaling over broad ligand range. Molecular Systems Biology, 7, 516.
- Becker, V. et al. (2010): Covering a broad dynamic range – information processing at the erythropoietin receptor. In: Science, 328 (5984), 1404-1408.
- Swameye, I. et al. (2003): Identification of nucleocytoplasmic cycling as a remote sensor in cellular signaling by data-based dynamic modeling. In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences oft he United States of America, 100, 1028-1033.
- Klingmüller, U. et al. (1995): Specific recruitment of SH-PTP1 to the erythropoietin receptor causes inactivation of JAK2 and termination of proliferative signals. In: Cell, 80, 729-738.