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Curriculum vitae Prof. Dr. Christian Bogdan

Lebenslauf Prof. Dr. Christian Bogdan

Education, Training and Academic Positions 

1979University entrance exam (Abitur)
1979-1981Federal Army of Germany (paramedic and Nurse)
1981-1986Medical School, University of Erlangen
9/1986-9/1987Intern at the University College and Middlesex Hospital Medical School and Hammersmith Hospital, Universiy of London
1987Final Medical Examination (Germany); FMGEMS (USA)
1988Approbation as medical doctor
1988M.D. thesis (magna cum laude), University of Erlangen
1/1988-6/1990postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Clinical Microbiology and Immunology, University of Erlangen (Prof. Dr. M. Röllinghoff)
1988/1989Visiting scientist at the Center for Molecular Biology (ZMBH), University of Heidelberg (Priv. Doz. Dr. Ewald Beck)
7/1990-12/1992Postdoctoral research fellow at Cornell University Medical College, New York City, Samuel and Beatrice Seaver Laboratory for Tumor Immunology (Prof. Carl Nathan)
1/1993-3/2003Research group leader at the Institute for Clinical Microbiology and Immunology, University of Erlangen
1995Board certification (Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases)
1995"Habilitation" for Medical Microbiology and Immunology
1997Appointment as C3 Professor for Medical Microbiology and Immunology and Deputy Director of the Institute
Nov 01Offer of a Full Professorship (C4) for Medical Microbiology at the Medical School of Hanover (declined)
2002Fachimmunologe (German Society of Immunology)
4/2003-6/2007Full professor (C4) for Medical Microbiology and Head of the Department of Medical Microbiology and Hygiene, University of Freiburg
Jul 07Full professor (W3) for Medical Microbiology and Immunology of Infectious Diseases and Director of the Institute of Clinical Microbiology, Immunology and Hygiene, University Clinic of Erlangen

Awards

1995Annual research award for young investigators by the German Society of Microbiology
1997Hygiene-Award of the Rudolf-Schlke Foundation
1999Georges Köhler-Award of the German Society of Immunology
2000Annual Main Award of the German Society for Microbiology and Hygiene
2008First Prize for Excellency in Teaching Medical Students (Clinical Sciences),
Medical Faculty, FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg
2009First Prize for Excellency in Teaching Medical Students (Clinical Sciences),
Medical Faculty, FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg
2010First Prize for Excellency in Teaching Medical Students (Clinical Sciences),
Medical Faculty, FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg
2011Second Prize for Excellency in Teaching Medical Students (Clinical Sciences),
Medical Faculty, FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg
2011-Member of the National Academy of Science Leopoldina
2012Second Prize for Excellency in Teaching Medical Students (Clinical Sciences),
Medical Faculty, FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg

Positions in Scientific Societies

1996-2002Board of the Study Group "Macrophages/Innate Immunity" of the German Society for Immunology
2001-2003President of the Gesellschaft fr NO-Forschung (Germany, Switzerland, Austria)
2001-2005President of European Macrophage and Dendritic Cell Society (EMDS)
2005-2011Secretary of the European Macrophage and Dendritic Cell Society (EMDS)
2005-Elected Member of the Council of the German Society of Immunology
2009-Chairman of the Societas PhysicoMedica Erlangensis
2009-2013Elected member of the Council of the Society of Leukocyte Biology

Editorial Positions

1995-Advisory Editor of The Journal of Experimental Medicine
1998-Member of the Editorial Board of Infection and Immunity
2004-"Editorial Board" of Nitric Oxide - Biology and Chemistry
2006-2010"Associate Editor" of The Journal of Immunology
2007-Member of the Editorial Board of The European Journal of Immunology

Other Academic Positions

2002-Member of the Examination Board for Speciality Training in Immunology (German Society of Immunology)
2004-2012Elected Member of the Reviewing Panel "Immunology, Microbiology and Virology" of the German Research Foundation (DFG)
2010-2013Spokesman of the Erlangen Center for Infection Research (ECI)
2011-Spokesman of the Medical Immunology Campus Erlangen