Curriculum vitae
Prof. Dr. Barbara Seliger
Personal data
Place of Work: Institute of Medical Immunology, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, 06112 Halle (Saale), Germany
Tel.: (+49) 345 557-4054, Fax: (+49) 345 557-4055,
E-mail:
Education and Training
1974 – 1980 Study of Biology at the Georg-August-University in Goettingen
1978 – 1980 Journalism as a minor study
1978-1980 Diploma thesis at the Max-Planck-Institute for Experimental Medicine in Goettingen, Germany
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. W. Ostertag
1980 – 1985 PhD thesis at the Max-Planck-Institute for Experimental Medicine in Goettingen, Beatson Institute for Cancer Research in Glasgow (UK) and at Heinrich-Pette-Institute for Experimental Virology and Immunology in Hamburg, Germany
Supervisor: Prof. W. Ostertag
1985 – 1989 Postdoctoral position/group leader at the Max-Planck-Institute for Experimental Medicine in Goettingen, clinical research group “Host tumor interaction”
1986 short term research training at the Eidgenoessische Hochschule, Zuerich, Switzerland (EMBO grant)
1987 short term research training at the Institute of Molecular Pathology and the Boehringer Ingelheim Research Institute, Vienna, Austria
1988 short term research training at the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research in Bern, Switzerland
1990 Habilitation/Venia legendi for “Immunology” at the Christian-Albrecht-University, Medical Faculty, Institute of Immunology, Kiel, Germany
Positions held
1990-1992 Assistant professor at the Ludwig-Institute for Cancer Research, Karolinska Institute Stockholm, Sweden
1993 – 2003 Associate professor and head of the section of Pathophysiology at the III. Department of Internal Medicine at the Johannes-Gutenberg-University in Mainz, Germany
1999 Visiting professorship at the Weizman Institute in Rehovot/Israel, Department of Immunology (Prof. L. Eisenbach)
2000 - Guest professor at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm/Sweden, Department of Immunology and Immunotherapy
Consultant immunologist/specialist for flow cytometric diagnostics and HLA phenotyping
2003 - Full professor (C4) of Immunology
Director of the Institute of Medical Immunology at the Martin-Luther-University of Halle-Wittenberg in Halle, Germany
2014 - Affiliated member of Sidra Research Institute in Doha, Qatar
2016 - Honorary/selected member of the European Academy for Tumor Immunology
Awards
1969, 1970 Jugend forscht
1978 Bayer Research Fellowship
1979 DAAD Fellowship
1980 – 1984 Studienstiftung Deutschen Volkes
1996 European Molecular Biological Organisation (EMBO) Research Fellowship
1999 Weizman Institute Fellowship
2005 Award of the German Internal Oncology Group
2006 Award from the UICC
2014 Award of the Qatar Research Foundation, Doha, Qatar
Publications
232
H-index
46
Management qualifications
1998 - 2003 Spokesman of the Science Research Building of the Medical Faculty in Mainz
2003 - Director of an Institute (research and diagnostics)
Member of different committees at the Medical Faculty
Involvement in many national and international committees
Involvement of the recruitment process for Professor positions at the Medical Faculty, Halle, Germany
2004 - 2008 Quality management of HLA laboratory
2004 - Quality management and reorganisation of the flow cytometric diagnostic laboratory and flow cytometry core facility
2010 - Development of a proteomics core facility
Teaching
1992 - 2003 Molecular Medicine for Medical students, Mainz
2003 - Immunology for biology and biochemistry students
2003 - Immunology and Medical Immunologyfor Medical students
2006 - 2009 Molecular Medicine for biology/biochemistry students
2013 - Molecular Medicine for Medical students
Other activities/functions
Scientific societies
2005 - Head of the work group “Tumor immunology” of the German Society of Immunology
2007 - Member of the Network “Nordic Centre of Excellence for
development of anti-tumor Vaccine concepts (NCEV)
2009 - Member of the Network CIMT (Immunomonitoring)
2010 - Associated member of NIBIT
2011 - Director of a FOCIS Center of Excellence in Halle, Germany
2013 - Member of the world Immunoscore (WIC)
2015 - Member of the SITC Work Group “Biomarkers”
Reviewer of papers/grants
1998 - Reviewer of many international journals (e.g. Lancet, Nature Medicine, Nature Immunology, Nature Reviews Oncology, J. Immunology, Cancer Research, Clinical Cancer Research, Journal National Cancer Institute, Proteomics, )
2000 - Reviewer of many national and international grants (e.g. DFG, Cancer Aid, SFB, Swiss Cancer Research, Netherlands Cancer Grant, Italian Association for Cancer Research, UK Cancer Research, Medical Research Council UK, Irish Research grant, GIF, French Cancer Grants, Canadian-Israelin research grants)
2012 - Reviewer of the Ministry of Research for small and middle sized biotech companies (KMUinnovative)
2016 - Reviewer of EU grants (ERC)
Editorial boards
2007 - Associate Editor „Clinical Proteomics“
2013 - Editorial board member for “Journal of Translational Medicine”
2013 - Member of the Editorial Board member for “OncoImmunology”
Organisation of symposia/meetings
2004 - Tumor Immunology meets oncology (yearly)
2006 - German Society of Immunology, “Tumor immunology” session
2006 - HLA-G Symposium in Paris (every two years)
2015 FOCIS meeting, “Tumor immunology” session
2015 CDDF Liquid biomarker meeting, Vienna, Austria
2016 Keystone Meeting J6 “Immune suppression and targeted therapy” Vancouver, Canada
ITOC3 in Munich
German Society of Immunology, Hamburg
National and international networks
1998 - collaborations with diverse German, European and US institutions, e.g. Charite, Berlin; Universities of Erlangen, Regensburg and Essen, DKFZ Heildelberg; Karolinska Institut, Stockholm, Sweden; University Hospital, Herlev/Copenhagen, Denmark; ETH Zuerich, Switzerland;, University Hospital Siena, Italy; Inserm, Paris, France; Istituto di Tumori, Milan, Italy; University of Portland, Portland, USA; Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA; Medical Faculty, Augusta, USA.
Languages
German (mother tongue)
English (perfect command of written and spoken English)
French (medium to advanced level)
Swedish (basic)