Scientific Advisory Board
Prof. Andreas Radbruch
German Rheumatism Research Centre Berlin (DRFZ)
Schumannstrasse 21/22
D-10117 Berlin
http://www.drfz.de
Andreas Radbruch is an internationally recognized immunologist and expert on cell sorting. He is the co-inventor of a magnetic cell sorting system and other sophisticated cell separation methods. His broad research interests in immunology comprise fields such as immunoglobulin class switching, the role of cytokines for the regulation of the immune system and the molecular basis of immunological memory, chronic immune reactions and autoimmue diseases.
Andreas Radbruch received his Ph.D. for work with Prof. Klaus Rajewsky from the University of Cologne, Germany, in 1980. From 1982 until 1994 he headed the research unit "Cytometry and Cell Sorting" at the Cologne Gene Centre. In 1986 and 1987 he was involved in research with Max Cooper and John Kearney at the University of Alabama, USA. Andreas Radbruch was appointed associate professor at the Institute for Genetics, University of Cologne, in 1990. Since 1996 he has been the scientific director of the German Rheumatism Research Centre Berlin (DRFZ), and since 1998 Full Professor for Experimental Rheumatology at the Charité, the medical faculty of the Humboldt University in Berlin.
Andreas Radbruch is a prolific author of scientific publications and member of several scientific committees and editorial boards of scientific journals.
In 1994 Andreas Radbruch was awarded the Karl-Heinz-Beckurts Prize for his involvement in the development of a magnetic cell sorting technology and its transfer from academia to industry. He received the Aronson Prize in 2000.
Prof. Walter Doerfler
Department of Medical Genetics and Virology
Institute for Genetics University of Cologne
Weyertal 121 D-50931 Cologne http://www.genetik.uni-koeln.de
For more than three decades Prof. Walter Doerfler and his laboratory have investigated the fate of foreign DNA in mammalian cells, foreign DNA integration, de novo-methylation and the consequences of foreign DNA insertion into mammalian genomes. He is an internationally renowned virologist and specialist on adenovirus.
Walter Doerfler received his education as a physician in Germany, Finland and the USA and received his M.D. in 1959. Walter Doerfler performed postdoctoral work at the Max-Planck-Institute for Biochemistry in Munich, Germany, and at Stanford University, USA, with D. T. Hogness. He spent five years at Rockefeller University as a physician and associate professor. Since 1972 Walter Doerfler has been full professor at the Institute for Genetics, University of Cologne. He was a visiting professor in Uppsala (Sweden), Stanford and Princeton (USA), Okayama and Kurashiki (Japan), and Moscow (Russia).
Walter Doerfler has published prodigiously on his research topics and is a member of numerous national and international scientific committees and editorial boards of scientific journals.
Walter Doerfler has been awarded many fellowships and prizes, among them the Aronson Prize in 1981 and the distinguished Robert-Koch-Prize in 1984 for fundamental insights into the mechanisms of DNA integration into mammalian genomes.
