Christoph Huber
Christoph Huber (* 14. February 1944 in Vienna ) is an Austrian hematologist , oncologist and immunologist with research interests tumor blocking can and stem cell transplantation . From 1990 until his retirement in 2009 he was director of the III. Medical clinic and polyclinic at the University Medicine of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz .
Life
Christoph Huber studied medicine at the University of Innsbruck from 1962 to 1968 , also trained as a specialist in internal medicine in Innsbruck with Herbert Braunsteiner from 1968 to 1974 and completed this training in 1976 after several stays abroad with a habilitation . In 1981 he trained in clinical bone marrow transplantation with Edward Donnall Thomas at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center , with the result that Huber founded and managed one of the first European stem cell transplant institutions in Vienna in 1983. In 1986 he was appointed Professor of Clinical Immunobiology and Head of the Department of the same name at the University of Innsbruck.
In 1990 Huber was made full professor of internal medicine and head of the III. Medical Clinic and Polyclinic of the Mainz University Medical Center. In an acknowledgment on the occasion of his retirement in 2009, it was stated: “This reputation was associated with the expectation of the establishment of an internationally noticeable research and supply center for hematology , oncology and stem cell transplantation. […] The tasks set were solved and a leading school for hematology, oncology and immunology was founded, which has now occupied numerous professorships in Germany and other European countries. the expansion of the focus on pneumology and for the establishment of academic palliative medicine at the Mainz University Medical Center.
For the clinical implementation of his research work, Huber founded the bio-tech company Ganymed Pharmaceuticals with partners and financial investors in 2001 and then with Uğur Şahin BioNTech , a specialist provider of personalized cancer immunotherapeutics . He was also involved in setting up the Institute for Translational Oncology (TRON) at the Mainz University Medical Center, which has been cooperating with the Helmholtz Institute for Translational Oncology (HI-TRON Mainz) since 2019 , and he is chairman of the Mainz Cluster Individualized Immune Intervention (Ci3 ) eV , whose aim is to establish the Rhine-Main region “at the top international level” in the field of individualized immune intervention.
Christoph Huber has been President of the Association for Cancer Immunotherapy (CIMT) for many years . He lives in Innsbruck and is the author of more than 200 scientific publications.
Honors
- In 1997 Christoph Huber became a corresponding member of the mathematical and natural science class abroad at the Austrian Academy of Sciences .
- In 2004 he received the State Medal of Merit for Rhineland-Palatinate .
- In 2007 the University of Innsbruck awarded him an honorary doctorate . He had made "significant contributions to the identification of selectively tumor- expressed antigens and their use in diagnostics and therapy ", and he had succeeded in "establishing his own scientific school."
- In 2014, on his 70th birthday, the book Cancer Immunotherapy Meets Oncology: In Honor of Christoph Huber was published by Springer Verlag .
- In 2015 he was awarded the Decoration of Honor of the State of Tyrol .
- In 2015 he was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Federal Republic of Germany “in recognition of his outstanding services to research into and fight against cancer and immune diseases” .
- In 2016 he received the Cardinal Innitzer Prize of the Archdiocese of Vienna .
Book publications
- as co-editor: Cancer Immunotherapies: Standards and Innovations. Deutscher Ärzte-Verlag, Cologne 2008, ISBN 978-3-7691-1212-2
- as co-editor: The internal medicine. Textbook. Schattauer, Stuttgart and New York 2000, ISBN 978-3-7945-1800-5
Web links
- Christoph Huber: pioneer of cancer research. On: aerzteblatt.de , 2014
- Short biography: Christoph Huber. On: ci-3.de (cluster for individualized immune intervention)
- Christoph H. Huber. Letter biographic sketch. On: ccc.ac.at (Comprehensive Cancer Center of the Medical University of Vienna)
- Progress in tumor therapy: combating cancer with souped-up immune cells. On: tagesspiegel.de from December 9, 2017
Individual evidence
- ↑ Curriculum Vitae on rlp-forschung.de
- ↑ Christoph Huber as director of the III. Adopted medical clinic. On: uni-mainz.de from March 25, 2009
- ↑ New Helmholtz Institute in Mainz. On: pharmaceutical-zeitung.de from February 14, 2019
- ↑ The Mission of Ci3. On: ci-3.de , last accessed on April 10, 2019
- ↑ Biography of Christoph Huber on the web server of MINI MED Studium (Austria)
- ^ Entry by Christoph Huber on the web server of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
- ↑ A great feast day. On: i-med.ac.at of March 26, 2007
- ↑ Immunologist Christoph Huber awarded the Federal Cross of Merit. On: uni-mainz.de from October 19, 2015
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Huber, Christoph |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Huber, Christoph H. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German immunologist and oncologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 14, 1944 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |