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Jürgen Manchot Research Professorship for Michael Reth

Biologist from University of Freiburg is honoured with Professorship for Experimental Infection Medicine

Jürgen Manchot Research Professorship for Michael Reth

Michael Reth. Picture: BIOSS University of Freiburg

The scientific director of the Cluster of Excellence BIOSS Centre for Biological Signalling Studies of the University of Freiburg, Prof. Dr. Michael Reth, is this year’s recipient of the Research Professorship for Experimental Infection Medicine. This honour is awarded by the Jürgen Manchot Foundation from Düsseldorf with the goal of promoting research in infection medicine as well as establishing and strengthening international networks. Not only does the professorship come with an award of €10,000, it is also an opportunity for the Medical Faculty of the Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf to invite outstanding scientists in the field of infection research to present their work at the Heinrich Heine University.

Reth received this award for his research endeavours toward a better understanding of the organization and control of receptors and signalling paths in healthy and diseased lymphocytes. This includes a new model for the structure and activation of B cell antigen receptors that he developed together with his research group. B cell antigen receptors sense foreign molecules, such as pathogens or vaccines, and activate the B cells to produce antibodies that protect humans against many diseases.

Michael Reth was born 1950 in Düsseldorf. He studied biology at the University of Cologne, where he obtained his PhD from the Institute for Genetics in 1981. After a research fellowship at Columbia University in New York, he returned to the University of Cologne in 1985, where he completed his habilitation. In 1989, he moved to Freiburg to join the team of the Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology. In 1995, Reth became Professor of Molecular Immunology at the University of Freiburg, while also continuing to research at the Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics. In 2007, Reth was appointed Scientific Director of the Cluster of Excellence BIOSS Centre for Biological Signalling Studies. The researcher has been honoured with numerous awards, including the Paul Ehrlich und Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize in 2014 for his outstanding research in immunology.

Press release of the Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf

Article on Surprising Science

Contact:
Prof. Dr. Michael Reth
Institute of Biology III and BIOSS Centre for Biological Signalling Studies
University of Freiburg
Phone: +49 761 203-97663
E-Mail: michael.reth@bioss.uni-freiburg.de


Print version of the press release (pdf).



 

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