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Prof. Dr. rer. nat. David Vöhringer

Prof. Dr. rer. nat. David Vöhringer

Head of Department

Wasserturmstrasse 3/5
91054 Erlangen

Institutions
Infektionsbiologie

Education, Training and Academic Positions

 

EDUCATION / POSITIONS

W2 Professor

Since 2010

 

 

Head of the Department of Infection Biology at the Institute of Clinical Microbiology, Immunology and Hygiene of the Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, Germany

Habilitation

2008

 

Habilitation at the Medical Faculty of the University of Munich.

Group leader

2005-2010

 

Head of an Emmy Noether research group. Funded by the “Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft“ (DFG). Located at the Institute for Immunology, University of Munich, Germany.

Post-Doc

2002-2005

 

With Prof. R. M. Locksley, Division of Infectious Diseases, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California San Francisco (UCSF), USA.

Ph.D. thesis

1998-2001

 

With Prof. H. Pircher, University of Freiburg, Germany. Finished with „summa cum laude“. Title: “T cell mediated autoimmune hepatitis and characterization of the Killer cell Lectin-like Receptor G1”

Summer Student

1998

 

Analysis of T-cell receptor signal transduction in the lab of Dr. E. Palmer at the Basel Institute for Immunology, Basel, Switzerland.

Diploma thesis

1997-1998

 

With Prof. H. Pircher, Department of Immunology at the Institute of Medical Microbiology and Hygiene, Freiburg. Title: “Analysis of T-cell tolerance and autoimmunity in a transgenic mouse model.”

Studies

1992-1994

1994-1998

 

Biology at the University of Tübingen, Germany.

Biology at the University of Freiburg, Germany. Main subjects: Cell Biology, Biochemistry, Microbiology and Clinical Chemistry.

Member of the Ethics committee on animal experiments at the Government of Lower Franconia

Deputy spokesperson for the research focus "Immunology and Inflammation" at the Medical Faculty of the FAU

Member of the intramural funding program of the "Johannes und Frida Marohn-Stiftung"

Member of the German Society of Immunologists

Member of the Faculty of 1000

Member of the Editorial Board of F1000 Research

Member of the Editorial Board of European Journal of Immunology

Immunology Advisory Board Member of Faculty Opinions

Award of the „Gesellschaft der Freunde der Universität Freiburg“ for the best diploma thesis of the faculty of biology (1998).

Scholarship for a Keystone meeting (2003).

Nominated for the participation at the Nobel Laureates meeting in Lindau (2007).

Poster prize (300€) at the World Immune Regulation Meeting in Davos (2007).

Selected to participate at the 15th German-American Kavli Frontiers of Science Symposium in Irvine, CA (2009).

Funding of an ERC starting grant (2009).

Langener Wissenschaftspreis (10.000 €) awarded by the Paul-Ehrlich-Institut and the German city Langen (2011).

Best Lecturer award from Master of Molecular Medicine students (2020).