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Academic title:

Prof. Dr. apl.

Name:

Birgit Schittek

Organizational units:

Department of Dermatology

Hospitals and clinical institutes

Cluster of Excellence: Image-Guided and Functionally Instructed Tumor Therapies (iFIT)

Centers or interfaculty scientific institutions

Research training group: Non-canonical G protein signaling pathways

Research training groups

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Curriculum vitae

Research focus

Mechanisms of melanoma progression and therapy resistance
Natural immunity of the skin

Patents

Antimikrobiell wirkendes Peptid

13/06/2001

19/04/2006 (EU)

07/06/2002 (Australien)

24/01/2008 (USA)

14/05/2009 (USA)

Claus Garbe, Birgit Schittek

Projects

Increasing the efficiency of targeted therapy in melanoma through CDKN1A/p21-dependent DNA damage response pathways

2025 - 2028

Birgit Schittek

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft e.V. (DFG)

The role of macrophages in S. aureus colonization of inflammatory skin diseases

2025 - 2028

Birgit Schittek

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft e.V. (DFG)

3D skin models

2023 - 2027

Birgit Schittek

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft e.V. (DFG)

Clinical relevance of RSK inhibitors on the growth of melanoma cells with hyperactivated MAPK-signaling pathway

2023 - 2025

Birgit Schittek

Wilhelm Sander-Stiftung

Microbiome-host interaction in skin homeostasis and inflammation

2023 - 2027

Birgit Schittek

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft e.V. (DFG)

Inflammation-induced niche remodelling in controlling melanoma dormancy

2021 - 2024

Birgit Schittek

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft e.V. (DFG)

3D Skin Models

2019 - 2023

Birgit Schittek

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft e.V. (DFG)

Image-guided and Functionally Instructed Tumor Therapies

2019 - 2025

Lars Zender, Bernd Pichler, Hans-Georg Rammensee

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft e.V. (DFG)

The skin microbiome in resistance to Staphylococcus aureus colonization

2019 - 2023

Birgit Schittek

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft e.V. (DFG)

Influence of p53 family member activity on therapy resistance in malignant melanoma

2018 - 2020

Birgit Schittek

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft e.V. (DFG)

Pathogen and host-derived lipid membranes governing Staphylococcus aureus-mediated skin inflammation

2018 - 2021

Birgit Schittek

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft e.V. (DFG)

2002	Habilitation: Molecular Medicine, University of Tübingen, mentor: Prof. Dr. C. Garbe
1992	Dr. rer. nat. (Ph.D): Immunology, University of Cologne, supervisor: Prof. Dr. K. Rajewsky

2015	Akademische Direktorin (Academic Director)
Since 2007	Associate (APL) Professor at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Tübingen
2007	Akademische Oberrätin
2002	Senior faculty position (Akademische Rätin)
Since 1995	Head of the Molecular and Cellular Biology Laboratories at the Department of Dermatology, Division of Dermatooncology, University of Tübingen, Germany
1995 - 2001	Scientific Assistant at the Department of Dermatology, Division of Dermatooncology, University of Tübingen, Germany
1993 - 1995	Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the laboratory of Prof. Dr. Günther Hämmerling/ Prof. Dr. Bernd Arnold at the Department of Tumour Immunology, German Cancer Research Centre, Heidelberg, Germany
1992 - 1993	Postdoctoral research fellow in the laboratory of Prof. Dr. Klaus Rajewsky at the University of Cologne, Institute for Genetics, Department of Immunology

2024	Teaching Award in Molecular Medicine, Medical Faculty of University of Tübingen
2010	Dermatooncology Research Award of the German Dermatological Research Foundation (ADF)
2006	Heinz-Maurer-Research-Award for Dermatological Research

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	Universität Tübingen Medizinische Fakultät Geissweg 5 72076 Tübingen
	Universität Tübingen Universitäts-Hautklinik Liebermeisterstr. 25 72076 Tübingen

Since 2009	Member of the advisory board (Studienkommission) Molekulare Medizin Tübingen