Thomas Graf (biologist)
Thomas Graf (born September 28, 1944 in Vienna ) is an Austrian virologist and cancer researcher .
Graf went to school in Caracas from 1951 to 1962 and studied from 1963 at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and the University of Tübingen , where he received his doctorate in 1969. From 1969 to 1971 he was a post-doctoral student at the Max Planck Institute for Virus Research in Tübingen and in 1972/73 in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at Duke University (with a grant from the Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Fund ). After that, he was professor in Tübingen (Max Planck Institute for Virology) from 1973 and from 1978 head of department and professor for virology at the German Cancer Research Center in Heidelberg. From 1983 to 1998 he was a senior scientist at EMBL (European Molecular Biology Laboratory). He is currently Professor of Developmental and Molecular Biology at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City and Director of the Cell Differentiation and Cancer Program at the CRG (Center for Genomic Regulation) in Barcelona .
Among other things, he researched leukemia in chickens, mice, zebrafish and humans and the mechanisms of differentiation of haematopoietic stem cells .
In 1983 he received the Prize of the German Society for Hygiene and Microbiology , in 1989 the Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize , in 1983 the Prize of the Wilhelm Warner Foundation (Hamburg) for cancer research and the leukemia research prize of the Kind Philipp Foundation in Marburg and the prize of the German Society for Microbiology and Hygiene and in 1988 the Dr. Josef Steiner Cancer Research Prize (with Hartmut Beug, Mariano Barbacid ). He is a member of the Academia Europaea .
Web links
- Website of his laboratory at Albert Einstein College
- Biography on the occasion of a lecture at the CRG
Individual evidence
- ↑ Curriculum Vitae from his homepage at Albert Einstein College ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ After his English-language CV as assistant professor and from 1975 as associate professor
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| SURNAME | Graf, Thomas |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian virologist and cancer researcher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 28, 1944 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |