Anna Katharina Simon#
| Membership Number: | 6938 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CELL & DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2024 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.mdc-berlin.de/person/prof-dr-katja-simon |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-4077-7995 |
| Twitter: | @aksimonlab |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2022 W3 Professor Charité & Max Delbrück Center, Berlin, head of section
- 2016 Professor, Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, Oxford
- 2015 Professor, tenured, WIMM, Oxford, UK
- 2014 Associate Professor, Nuffield Department of Medicine & WIMM, Oxford, UK
- 2006 Assistant Professor Nuffield Department of Medicine & WIMM, Oxford, UK
- 2003 9 months maternity leave third child
- 1998 Postdoc Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine (WIMM), Oxford, UK
- 1998 6 months maternity leave for second child
- 1995 4 months maternity leave for first child
- 1994 Postdoc Centre d'immunologie de Marseille Luminy, France
Fields of Scholarship
- Autophagy prevents aging immune cells
- Autophagy inducers in vaccine responses (clinical trials)
- Mechanisms of immunological tolerance in the thymus
- Peripheral tolerance in tumour immunity
- T cell subsets in autoimmunity
- Cell Death mechanisms in immune cells
- Autophagy in hematopoiesis (stem cells and mature lineages)
- Autophagy in immune cells
Honours and Awards
- 1994 Young Investigator Award Rheumatology EULAR
- 2014 Wellcome Investigator Award, €1.5 M
- 2018 Ita Askonas Prize for most outstanding European female group leader in Immunology (EFIS)
- 2021 Wellcome Investigator Award, €2.2 M
- 2021 FMedSci Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences
