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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
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Curriculum vitae

Education

10/1981 – 05/1988 Studies in biology, Universities of Bielefeld and Cologne, Diploma, supervisor: Prof. Dr. K. Rajewsky

 

Degrees

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

 

Academic career

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

 

Awards

2010 Dermatooncology Research Award of the German Dermatological Research Foundation (ADF)
2006 Heinz-Maurer-Research-Award for Dermatological Research

 

Editorial and advisory board

Since 2009 Member of the advisory board (Studienkommission) Molekulare Medizin Tübingen
Since 2009 Second Chairman of the Society to Combat Skin Cancer e.V.

 

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

3D skin models
2023 - 2027
Birgit Schittek
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft e.V. (DFG)
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)
Immune cell- skin microbiome cooperation in resistance to Staphylococcus aureus colonization
2019
Birgit Schittek
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft e.V. (DFG)
The influence of the skin microbiome on S. aureus colonization
2019
Birgit Schittek
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)
SFB 766 – The Bacterial Cell Envelope: Structure, Function and Infection Interface
2015 - 2019
Wolfgang Wohlleben
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft e.V. (DFG)

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