Thomas Boehm (medical doctor)

Thomas Boehm, 2018

Thomas Boehm (born July 21, 1956 in Gelnhausen ) is a German immunologist . He is one of the directors at the Max Planck Institute for Immunobiology and Epigenetics in Freiburg im Breisgau .

Life

Boehm completed his studies in medicine at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main . He received his doctorate in 1982 and then worked as a research assistant in paediatrics and biochemistry at the University Hospital Frankfurt am Main . In 1988 he qualified as a professor in biological chemistry . From 1987 to 1991 he was a visiting researcher and then a research fellow at the Laboratory of Molecular Biology at Cambridge University . In 1991 he received a professorship at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg and in 1994 a joint professorship at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg and the German Cancer Research Center in Heidelberg. Since 1998 he has been one of the directors at the Max Planck Institute for Immunobiology and Epigenetics in Freiburg im Breisgau.

Act

Boehm studies the evolution of the immune system , the development of the thymus, and the relationships between lymphocytes and the stroma . He was able to achieve groundbreaking advances in the study of the thymus. With the help of comparative studies of different animal species, essential properties of the immune systems of all vertebrates could be identified - especially the structure of the immune system and the basis of its adaptability. Control mechanisms that cause the maturation and differentiation of immune cells were elucidated in his laboratory. Successful experiments with the production of artificial thymus glands were also successful. More recent work deals with the development and function of genetic networks required for immune tolerance in antigen recognition in vertebrates and invertebrates .

Boehm has been Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Paul Ehrlich Foundation since 2018 .

Awards (selection)

1987 Research Prize of the Kind Phillips Foundation for Leukemia Research (together with Dusan Drahovsky ) for investigations into the genetic heterogeneity of human leukemias through analysis of the DNA arrangements of immunoglobulin genes, T cell receptor genes and cellular oncogenes
1997 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize
2002 Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
2002 member of the Leopoldina
2012 member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences
2014 Ernst Jung Prize for Medicine

Web links

Laboratory Thomas Boehm at the Max Planck Institute for Immunobiology and Epigenetics (ie-freiburg.mpg.de)
Vita at the Max Planck Society (mpg.de)

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Member entry by Thomas Boehm at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on January 9, 2014.
↑ prices. (PDF) In: Deutsches Ärzteblatt from October 6, 1988
^ List of Leibniz Prize winners 1986-2013 at the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (dfg.de); accessed on January 9, 2014
↑ Thomas Boehm at the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences (haw.uni-heidelberg.de); accessed on May 18, 2019.
↑ Ernst Jung Prize for Medicine 2014: Prize winner Prof. Thomas Boehm at the Jung Foundation for Science and Research (jung-stiftung.de); accessed on May 18, 2019.

personal data
SURNAME	Boehm, Thomas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Boehm, Thomas LJ
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German immunologist
DATE OF BIRTH	July 21, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH	Gelnhausen

[:0-1] Member entry by Thomas Boehm at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on January 9, 2014.

[2] rices. (PDF) In: Deutsches Ärzteblatt from October 6, 1988

[3] List of Leibniz Prize winners 1986-2013 at the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (dfg.de); accessed on January 9, 2014

[4] Thomas Boehm at the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences (haw.uni-heidelberg.de); accessed on May 18, 2019.

[5] Ernst Jung Prize for Medicine 2014: Prize winner Prof. Thomas Boehm at the Jung Foundation for Science and Research (jung-stiftung.de); accessed on May 18, 2019.