Martina Muckenthaler#
© Marsilius-Kolleg der Universität Heidelberg, Photo: Tobias Schwerdt
| Membership Number: | 6989 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2024 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.klinikum.uni-heidelberg.de/personen/prof-dr-phil-nat-martina-muckenthaler-1046 |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-3778-510X |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2006 - present Principle investigator; Molecular Medicine Partnership Unit (EMBL and University Medical Center Heidelberg)
- 2004 - present Professor of Molecular Medicine, University Medical Center Heidelberg, Department of Paediatric Oncology, Hematology, Immunology and Pneumology
- 2002 - 2003 Staff Scientist, EMBL, Heidelberg
- 1994 - 2001 Postdoctoral fellow, EMBL, Heidelberg
Fields of Scholarship
- Rare anemias
- Iron metabolism
- Immunity
- microRNAs
- Tumor microenvironment
Honours and Awards
- 2020 Plenary speaker European Hematology Association (EHA)
- 2020 Elected member of the National Academy of Sciences (Leopoldina)
- 2020 - 2021 Fellow at the Marsilius-Kolleg of the Heidelberg University
- 2019 - 2023 President of International BioIron Society (IBIS)
- 2018 Chair Scientific program Committee of the (EHA)
- 2017 Chair Scientific Committee of the American Society of Hematology (ASH), 'Iron and Heme'
- 2016 - 2020 Board member of the German Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (GBM)
- 2015 “Reeves Prize” Hypoxia Symposium, Lake Louise, Canada
- 2015 - 2018 Elected Executive Board Member of the European Hematology Association
- 2014 - 2017 Chair of the Fellowship and Grant Committee of the European Hematology Association
- 2013 - 2017 Scientific Committee member of the American Society of Hematology
- 2012 - 2015 Elected Board Member of the European Hematology Association
- 2009 - 2013 Elected Director of the International BioIron Society
- 2007 Margit Krikker Award of the International BioIron Society
