Stefan Rose-John#
| Membership Number: | 6610 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
| Affiliated section(s): | CELL & DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2023 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-7519-3279 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2000 - 2022 Full professor of Biochemistry and Director of the Biochemical Institute, University of Kiel Medical School, Germany
- 1994 - 2000 Associate Professor of Pathophysiology at the University Medical Clinic, University of Mainz, Germany
- 1988 - 1994 Assistant Professor at the Department of Biochemistry, RWTH Aachen Medical School, Aachen, Germany
- 1985 - 1988 Junior Group Leader, Department of Biochemistry, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
- 1983 - 1984 Research Associate at the DOE-Plant Research Laboratory, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA
Fields of Scholarship
- Signal transduction of hormones and growth factors
- Construction of designer cytokines to study inflammation and cancer
- Structure-function studies of cytokines and cytokine receptors
- Molecular immunology of inflammation and inflammation associated cancer
- Molecular biology of cytokines
- Shedding of cytokine receptors by ADAM proteases
Honours and Awards
- 2023 Jung Medal for Medicine in Gold
- 2019 Jacob-Henle-Medal (University of Göttingen, Germany)
- 2017 Albrecht Hasinger Lecture (German Rheumatology-Research-Centre, Berlin, Germany)
- 2014 Elected Member of the Academy of Sciences in Hamburg, Germany
- 2005 Science Award of the City Council of Kiel, Germany
- 2004 Boltzmann Award for International Collaboration in Cytokine Research (International Cytokine Society)
- 1995 Junior-Scientist Award of the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) Heidelberg, Germany
