Franziska Jundt

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Franziska Jundt (born October 20, 1970 in Heidelberg ) is a German hematologist and oncologist and professor at the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg .

Life

Franziska Jundt passed the Abitur at the Kurfürst-Friedrich-Gymnasium in Heidelberg in 1989 and then began studying human medicine at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg . During her studies, she made stays abroad in Birmingham , Boston , Catania and San Francisco and passed parts of the USMLE . In 1996, Jundt studying with the medical state examination and was the same year the Nobel Prize winner Harald zur Hausen on Transcriptional regulation of the human papillomavirus type 18: Role of the transcription factor YY1 doctorate .

Jundt then worked as a research assistant in Berlin at the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine and as a clinical assistant at the Charité , in the meantime she worked as a post-doc at the Technical University of Munich . In 2005 she passed the examination to become a specialist in internal medicine and in the same year received her habilitation on molecular defects in the pathogenesis of malignant lymphomas and new therapeutic approaches . In 2013 she was appointed professor at the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg and has been working there since 2014. Jundt is married and has three children.

Act

Franziska Jundt's research focuses on the Notch signal pathway , a signal transduction pathway through which cells can react to external signals . She deals with the question of the extent to which this signal path is important for lymphomas and multiple myelomas and can be used therapeutically. Her work was funded by the German Research Foundation , the Wilhelm Sander Foundation and the German Cancer Aid , among others . Jundt has received several prizes for her work, including the Karl Mussoff Prize (2001) and the Charité Rudolf Virchow Research Prize (2002).

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Individual evidence

  1. a b Molecular defects in the pathogenesis of malignant lymphomas and new therapeutic approaches . (PDF) Medical Faculty of the Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin (habilitation thesis), accessed on April 4, 2014.
  2. Transcriptional regulation of the human papillomavirus type 18: role of the transcription factor YY1 . DNB 949443964 .
  3. a b Prof. Dr. med. Franziska Jundt ( Memento from April 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Molecular Cancer Research Center of the Charité, accessed on April 4, 2014.
  4. Molecular defects in the pathogenesis of malignant lymphomas and new therapeutic approaches . DNB 981352103 .
  5. Habilitations and Appointments 7/2013 ( Memento from October 12, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Research & Teaching , accessed on April 4, 2014.
  6. ^ A b Franziska Jundt: New professor in medicine . ( Memento from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) einBLICK - The online magazine of the University of Würzburg, accessed on April 4, 2014.
  7. Professor Dr. Franziska Jundt ( Memento from April 4, 2014 in the web archive archive.today ) German Research Foundation, accessed on April 4, 2014.
  8. Funded projects approved from 2009 to 2011 ( Memento from April 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF) Wilhelm Sander Foundation, accessed on April 4, 2014.
  9. The Charité Research Prize for 2001 was awarded to Dr. Katrin Hoffmann and Dr. Franziska Jundt . Science Information Service, accessed April 4, 2014.
  10. Awards . In: Deutsches Ärzteblatt , November 22, 2002, accessed April 4, 2014.