Martin Röllinghoff

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Martin Röllinghoff (born April 1, 1941 in Hamburg ) is a retired German professor, physician, microbiologist and immunologist at the Medical Faculty of the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg .

Life

Röllinghoff studied human medicine from 1961 to 1967 at the Universities of Freiburg, Vienna and Tübingen. In 1967 he received his doctorate. med. in Tübingen. After working as a medical assistant in Lübeck, Hattingen / Ruhr and Mainz, he became a scientific assistant to Paul Klein at the Institute for Medical Microbiology at the University of Mainz . From 1970 to 1971 he was a medical officer in the Bundeswehr in Koblenz. Röllinghoff then went to the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute in Melbourne, Australia, as a fellow of the German Research Foundation . In 1973 he returned to the Mainz Institute for Medical Microbiology as a research assistant , where he completed his habilitation there in 1975 with his thesis “The immune reaction against syngeneic plasma cell tumors”, whereupon he received the Venia legendi for Medical Microbiology in Mainz. In 1979 he passed his examination to become a specialist in microbiology and infection epidemiology. In 1983 he was appointed full professor for clinical microbiology and hygiene and head of the institute for clinical microbiology at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen (FAU).

From 1990 to 1996 he was spokesman for the graduate college “Immunological Mechanisms in Infection, Inflammation and Autoimmunity” and from 1996 to 2002 spokesman for the Collaborative Research Center of the same name 263. In addition, Röllinghoff was dean of the FAU medical faculty and a member of the university's board of directors -Klinikum Erlangen. In 2007 he retired.

research

In Mainz, Röllinghoff dealt with the complement system; in Melbourne, his scientific focus was on the analysis of the T-killer cell-mediated immune reaction against murine tumors. Back in Mainz, he worked with T cells and cytokines . In Erlangen, Röllinghoff and his group dealt with the cellular immune defense against the parasites Leishmania Major and Yersinia enterocolitica , with the focus on the interaction of infected macrophages with T cells and the analysis of the different effects of Th1 and Th2 cells.

Röllinghoff published approx. 300 publications in international journals of experimental medicine, immunology and microbiology.

Awards

  • 1973 Hans Klenk Prize
  • 1980 Böhringer Ingelheim Prize
  • 2001 election to the National Academy of Scientists, Leopoldina , Halle
  • 2002 Rudolf Leukart Medal of the Society for Parasitology
  • 2007 Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon

Other functions and memberships

  • From 1995 to 1997 President of the German Society for Immunology
  • From 2002 to 2004 President of the German Society for Hygiene and Microbiology
  • From 2000 to 2004 member of the Senate of the German Research Foundation
  • From 2003 to 2014 member of the University Council of Mainz University
  • since 2006 member of the European Medical Research Council of the European Science Foundation
  • From 2007 to 2009 member of the Schleswig-Holstein University Council
  • since 2009 member of the supervisory board of the Mainz University Medical Center

Röllinghoff was also a member of various international specialist societies and editorial boards of scientific journals such as the European Journal of Immunology, Immunobiology, International Archives of Allergy and Immunology and Zentralblatt für Bakteriologie. He was also a member of the scientific advisory board of the Paul Ehrlich Institute , the Standing Vaccination Commission at the Robert Koch Institute , the Society for Biotechnological Research in Braunschweig, the Agence nationale de la recherche for SIDA, Paris and the Joint Advisory Board of the Weill Cornell Medical College New York / Qatar.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Farewell party for Martin Röllinghoff , press release of the medical faculty Erlangen-Nürnberg from September 22, 2006
  2. ↑ Member entry by Prof. Dr. Martin Röllinghoff (with picture and CV) at the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina , accessed on July 19, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Röllinghoff, Martin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Life, martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German medic
DATE OF BIRTH April 1, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg