Ralf Küppers

Ralf Küppers (* 1962 in Viersen ) is a German molecular geneticist at the Institute for Cell Biology at the University Hospital Essen .

Live and act

Küppers obtained a diploma in biology from the University of Cologne in 1989 . He received his PhD in 1995 at the same place Klaus Rajewsky to Dr. rer. nat. , Here he developed a method for the molecular biological detection of Hodgkin cells and Sternberg-Reed giant cells, the cellular malignant correlate of Hodgkin's disease . From 1996 to 2002 he was group leader in the Collaborative Research Center 502 “Molecular Aspects of the Pathogenesis, Diagnostics and Therapy of Hodgkin's Disease and Related Diseases”. In 1999 , Küppers completed his habilitation in genetics at the University of Cologne . From 1999 to 2003 he received a Heisenberg grant from the German Research Foundation (DFG). In 2000/2001 Küppers had a six-month sabbatical with Riccardo Dalla-Favera at Columbia University in New York City .

In 2004, Küppers received a C4 professorship for " Molecular Genetics " at the Institute for Cell Biology at the University Hospital Essen as successor to Manfred F. Rajewsky , which he still holds today (as of 2016). His fields of work are the development and differentiation of B-lymphocytes in humans, the biology of the infection of B-lymphocytes with the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) and other EBV-associated diseases, the pathogenesis of B-cell lymphomas , especially the Hodgkin's disease.

Awards (selection)

• 1998 Georges Köhler Prize
• 2001 German Cancer Aid Prize
• 2005 Wilhelm Warner Prize for Cancer Research

Web links

• Ralf Küppers at the Center for Medical Biotechnology at the University of Duisburg-Essen (uni-due.de)
• Institute for Cell Biology (Tumor Research) and Univ.-Prof. Dr. Ralf Küppers (including curriculum vitae) at the Essen University Hospital

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Peter Wiernik, John M. Goldman, Janice Dutcher, Robert A. Kyle (Eds.): Neoplastic Diseases of the Blood . Springer Science & Business Media, 2012, ISBN 978-1-4614-3764-2 , p. 802 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).
2. ↑ 99th annual meeting of the German Society for Pathology e. V. & 29th conference of the German Society for Cytology e. V. - main program (PDF; 2.5 MB), p. 66; accessed on March 27, 2016.
3. ↑ CAMPUS: REPORT 02/2004 (PDF; 702 kB) of the University of Duisburg-Essen (uni-due.de), p. 25; accessed on March 27, 2016.
4. ^ Georges Köhler Prize - dgfi.org. In: dgfi.org. Retrieved March 27, 2016 . 
5. ↑ Eva M. Kalbheim: German Cancer Aid Prize awarded 2,001th German Cancer Aid V., press release from December 16, 2002 at the Science Information Service (idw-online.de), accessed on March 27, 2016.
6. ^ German Cancer Aid: German Cancer Aid Prize 2001 awarded. In: krebshilfe.de. December 16, 2002, accessed March 27, 2016 . 
7. ↑ Professor Ralf Küppers honored for cancer research. In: medica.de. Retrieved March 27, 2016 . 
8. ^ Marion creates: Wilhelm Warner Prize for Cancer Research. Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf, press release from October 5, 2005 from Informationsdienst Wissenschaft (idw-online.de), accessed on March 27, 2016.