Klaus Rajewsky

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Klaus Rajewsky (born November 12, 1936 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German immunologist .

Scientific stations

He completed his medical studies in Frankfurt and Munich . He then carried out research at the Pasteur Institute in Paris . From 1964 to 1970 Rajewsky was a research assistant at the Institute for Genetics at the University of Cologne . From 1970 until reaching the age limit in 2001, he was Professor of Molecular Genetics at the Institute for Genetics at the University of Cologne. After his retirement in Germany and almost 40 years in Cologne, he moved to Harvard Medical School , to the Center for Blood Research in Boston . In 2011 he returned to Germany to do research at the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) Berlin-Buch .

In 1967 he was a founding member of the German Society for Immunology and from 1995 to 2001 head of the European “Monterontondo Research Center” near Rome.

He has been a member of the Leopoldina since 1995 and an external member of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 2003 .

Research priorities

As one of the most influential scientists in his field Klaus Rajewsky in particular to the development of mutants of the mouse as animal models contributed. In such mutants genes are specifically removed from individual cell types (“knock-out”, “conditional knock-out”, see knockout mouse ), or genes are modified using genetic methods in such a way that it is possible to track whether they are “ used ”, i.e. converted into proteins functionally (“ knock-in ”). Rajewsky uses these models to analyze the development of B-lymphocytes . Another focus of his work is leukemia research, in particular the further elucidation of the mechanisms of Hodgkin's lymphoma .

family

His father is the German biophysicist and radiation researcher Boris Rajewsky (1893–1974). He was married to Christiane Rajewsky . His son is the German bioinformatician Nikolaus Rajewsky (* 1968).

Awards

Web links

Commons : Klaus Rajewsky  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

supporting documents

  1. ^ Letter CV Klaus Rajewsky , Berlin School of Integrative Oncology, accessed March 31, 2017
  2. ↑ Prof. Klaus Rajewsky returns to Germany from the USA - New task at the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine , Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine December 16, 2010, accessed March 31, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Rajewsky, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German immunologist
DATE OF BIRTH November 12, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main