Jörg driver

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Jörg Driver (2017)

Jörg Driver (born July 5, 1978 in Karlsruhe ) is a German food chemist and toxicologist . He is Professor of Cellular Pharmacology and Toxicology at the Rudolf Buchheim Institute for Pharmacology at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen .

Life

Driver was the first child of Rolf Driver and his wife Brigitte, geb. Schmidt, born in Karlsruhe. He spent his youth in Wössingen, part of the Walzbachtal community . There he attended elementary school, then the Melanchthon high school in Bretten . From 1999 to 2004 he studied food chemistry at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology . There he graduated from the Institute for Food Chemistry and Toxicology with Andrea Hartwig in 2004 . From 2004 to 2007 he was a research assistant and doctoral candidate at the chair for molecular toxicology with Alexander Bürkle at the University of Konstanz . There doctorate he in 2007 in the Biology Department for Dr. rer. nat. From 2008 to 2011 he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Pharmacology and Toxicology at the Ulm University Hospital . His main research focus there was "Development and application of novel transport systems for the internalization of therapeutic proteins in tumor cells". Then he trained to become a specialist toxicologist ( DGPT ).

From 2012 to 2017, he was a group leader at the Institute for Toxicology of the University Medicine at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz . He qualified as a professor in 2016 and obtained the license to teach toxicology at the medical faculty of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. Since 2017 he has held a W2 professorship for cellular pharmacology and toxicology at the Rudolf Buchheim Institute for Pharmacology at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen .

Prizes and awards

  • 2005: Procter & Gamble Award for the best diploma in food chemistry
  • 2008: Nycomed Prize for the best doctoral thesis in biology
  • 2011: Young Scientist Toxicology Award of the DGPT donated by Merck KGaA
  • 2017: Kurt Täufel Prize of the Young Scientist of the LChG / GDCh
  • 2017: Boehringer-Ingelheim Prize of the Mainz University Medical Center

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Nycomed Young Talents Award. University of Konstanz, accessed on February 6, 2019 .
  2. ↑ 2011 Young Scientist Toxicology Award. Society for Toxicology, accessed February 6, 2019 .
  3. ↑ 46th German Food Chemists' Day 2017. foodjobs GmbH, October 4, 2017, accessed on February 6, 2019 .
  4. ^ Boehringer Ingelheim Prize. Boehringer Ingelheim Foundation, accessed February 6, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Driver, Jörg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German food chemist and toxicologist
DATE OF BIRTH 5th July 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH Karlsruhe