Tim Sparwasser

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Tim Dominik Sparwasser (born January 8, 1969 in Mainz ) is a German physician, microbiologist and infection immunologist. Since 2018 he has been director of the Institute for Medical Microbiology and Hygiene of University Medicine at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz

Life

Sparwasser studied human medicine as a scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation at Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz and at Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich (LMU) and received his doctorate in 1996. He continued his research at the Institute for Medical Microbiology, Immunology and Hygiene (MIH) at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and then at the Skirball Institute as a Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Postdoctoral Fellow in New York.

In 2008 he has the MIH of the Technical University of Munich habilitation and was in the same year director of the Institute for Infection Immunology at Twin Core, Center for Experimental and Clinical Infection Research, a joint facility of the Hannover Medical School (MHH) and the Helmholtz Center for Infection Research (HZI ).

In 2018, Sparwasser accepted a call from the University of Mainz and took over the management of the Institute for Medical Microbiology and Hygiene (IMMH) after rejecting a corresponding call from the Technical University of Dresden in 2017.

Since 2014 he has been a council member of the German Society for Immunology (DGfI). He has been a member of the steering committee of the Research Center for Immunotherapy (FZI) at the University of Mainz since 2018. In 2019 he was elected as German representative to the Council of the International Association of Immunology Societies (IUIS). Sparwasser is one of the much-cited immunologists in Europe. Sparwasser published 200 scientific papers, more than 200 of which are listed in the Science Citation Index . The work has been cited more than 15,000 times and the h-index is 60.

Research priorities

One of the main research areas of his laboratory at the Institute for Medical Microbiology and Hygiene is the decoding of host-pathogen interactions. Sparwasser was one of the first to recognize that special microbial DNA containing CpG motifs activates the cells of the innate immune system and can therefore be used as an adjuvant in experimental vaccines. Using new genetic models, Sparwasser was able for the first time to directly demonstrate the role of so-called regulatory T cells in preventing autoimmunity and their importance in the adaptive immune response against tumor cells and various pathogens. Since 2010, Sparwasser has been working on the immunomodulating effect of bacterial metabolites and, in particular, on the metabolism of immune cells to improve immune responses and vaccinations.

Awards

Sparwasser was a scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation . The German Society for Hygiene and Microbiology (DGHM) awarded him the DGHM Award in 1999. From 1999 to 2002 Sparwasser was awarded the HHMI Postdoctoral Fellowship Award for Physicians .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Institute for Medical Microbiology and Hygiene / Institute management
  2. ↑ a b c Tim Sparwasser is the new director of the Institute for Medical Microbiology and Hygiene. In: German Society for Immunology. Retrieved July 23, 2020 .
  3. ^ A b Deutscher Ärzteverlag GmbH, editorial office of the Deutsches Ärzteblatt: Tasks and offices. October 24, 2008, accessed July 23, 2020 .
  4. ↑ German Society for Immunology: Advisory Board 2019-2020. Retrieved July 23, 2020 .
  5. ↑ November 28, 2019: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Tim Sparwasser elected council member of the International Union of Immunological Societies (IUIS) | Research Center for Immunotherapy. Retrieved July 23, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Laborjournal online: Citation comparison 2011-2015: Immunology. Retrieved July 23, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Medical microbiology and hygiene | Medical microbiology and hygiene »Research» Infection Immunology (Sparwasser Laboratory). Retrieved July 23, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Tim Sparwasser is the new director of the Institute for Medical Microbiology and Hygiene. In: idw Information Service Science. Retrieved July 23, 2020 .
  9. ↑ Sponsorship Award | German Society for Hygiene and Microbiology. Retrieved July 23, 2020 .
  10. ^ Thirty-six Physicians Awarded Support to Pursue Careers as Physician-Scientists. Retrieved July 23, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Sparwasser, Tim
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sparwasser, Tim Dominik (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physician, microbiologist and infection immunologist
DATE OF BIRTH January 8, 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Mainz