Thomas Boehm (biologist)
Thomas Boehm (born 21 July 1956 in
Max Planck Institute for Immunobiology and Epigenetics in Freiburg im Breisgau
. He has won a variety of prizes for his research work.
Life
Boehm completed his
Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg and in 1994 a joint professorship at Heidelberg University and the German Cancer Research Center in Heidelberg. Since 1998 he has been a director at the Max Planck Institute for Immunobiology and Epigenetics in Freiburg im Breisgau.[1]
Research
Boehm deals with the
invertebrates
.
Boehm has been Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Paul Ehrlich Foundation since 2018.
Selected works
Books
- Boehm, Thomas (2008). "Thymus development and function". Current Opinion in Immunology. 20 (2). Elsevier BV: 178–184. PMID 18403191.
Articles
- Bajoghli, Baubak; Aghaallaei, Narges; Hess, Isabell; Rode, Immanuel; Netuschil, Nikolai; Tay, Boon-Hui; Venkatesh, Byrappa; Yu, Jr-Kai; Kaltenbach, Stacy L.; Holland, Nicholas D.; Diekhoff, Dagmar; Happe, Christiane; Schorpp, Michael; Boehm, Thomas (2009). "Evolution of Genetic Networks Underlying the Emergence of Thymopoiesis in Vertebrates". Cell. 138 (1). Elsevier BV: 186–197. S2CID 1803223.
- Boehm, Thomas; Hess, Isabell; Swann, Jeremy B. (2012). "Evolution of lymphoid tissues". Trends in Immunology. 33 (6). Elsevier BV: 315–321. PMID 22483556.
- Boehm, Thomas; McCurley, Nathanael; Sutoh, Yoichi; Schorpp, Michael; Kasahara, Masanori; Cooper, Max D. (23 April 2012). "VLR-Based Adaptive Immunity". Annual Review of Immunology. 30 (1). Annual Reviews: 203–220. PMID 22224775.
Awards and distinctions
- 1987 Research Prize of the Kind Phillips Foundation for Leukemia Research (with Dusan Drahovsky) for Investigations into the genetic heterogeneity of human leukemia by analyzing the DNA arrangements of immunoglobulin genes, T cell receptor genes and cellular oncogenes [2]
- 1997 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize[3]
- 2002 member of the European Molecular Biology Organization
- 2002 member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
- 2012 member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities[4]
- 2014 Ernst Jung Prize for Medicine[5][6]
- 2020 German Immunology Prize[7]
- 2021 Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 2021 Heinrich Wieland Prize[8]
References
- ^ "Dr. Thomas Boehm: Vita". Max Planck Gesellschaft. Retrieved 24 September 2021.
- ^ Preise. (PDF) in Deutsches Ärzteblatt, 6 October 1988
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft(dfg.de); 9 January 2014
- ^ Thomas Boehm at the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities.
- ^ Ernst Jung-Preis
- ^ Erns 2014: Preisträger Prof. Thomas Boehm at the Jung Foundation for Science and Research.
- ^ "Deutscher Immunologie-Preis". Deutsche Gesellschaft für Immunologie e.V. Archived from the original on 12 August 2021. Retrieved 20 September 2021.
- ^ "The Prize". Boehringer Ingelheim Stiftung. 2021. Archived from the original on 30 July 2021. Retrieved 20 September 2021.
External links
- Laboratory Thomas Boehm at Max Planck Institutefor Immunobiology and Epigenetics
- Vita at Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
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