Das Klinikum

Prof. Alexander Weber

Telefonnummer: Office: 07071 29-87623

Faxnummer: 07071029-4759

E-Mail-Adresse: alexander.weber@uni-tuebingen.de

DFG SPP2225 Project We-4195/25-1 “STAPHEX - Dissecting Staphylococcus aureus macrophage exit” with Prof. Dr. Christiane Wolz, Tübingen
DFG INST 37/1273-1 FUGG §91b application for major investments „Spinning Disk Konfokalmikroskop: Visualisierung und Quantifizierung von Bakterien-Wirt-Interaktionen“
VW Momentum Grant „InnatelyHuman“
DFG SPP2416 Project We-4195/24-1 “Principles of extra- and intracellular chitin perception by mammalian pattern recognition receptors”
DFG TR/SFB 156 (INST 35/1259-3) Project C10 „Platelets as novel contributors to psoriasis skin autoinflammation“, with Prof. Dr. Bettina Weigelin, Tübingen
DFG TR/SFB 156 (INST 35/1259-3) Project B05 „Dual roles of RNA-induced immune activation in the skin“, with Prof. Dr. Alexander Dalpke, Heidelberg
DKTK 8th Joint funding Project “PEVIDS – Impact of personalized vitamin D supplementation on the immunome and proteome of colorectal cancer patients: potential for personalized tertiary prevention”

Since 2017W3/Full Professor of Innate Immunity at Tübingen University, Germany
2011-2017W1/Junior Professor of Innate Immunity at Tübingen University, Germany
2016Offer of appointment as Chair of Cancer Biology, Lancaster University, UK (declined)
2007-2011Emmy Noether Junior Group Leader, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany. Research focus: Toll-like receptor signalling and genetic variants
2006Postdoctoral fellow, Division Virotherapy (Prof. Jean Rommelaere), German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
2004-2005Scientific manager, Cambridge University, UK. Baculovirus Protein Expression Facility (funded by the Wellcome Trust UK)
2000-2004Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Biochemistry (2000 – 2004). University of Cambridge, UK and GlaxoSmithKline Medicines Research Centre, Stevenage, UK. PhD supervisor: Prof. Dr. Nicholas J. Gay
1996-2000Vordiplom and Master studies in Biochemistry in Tübingen, Germany, and Cambridge, UK, respectively

2016: Medical Faculty Equal Opportunities Award (Gleichstellungspreis), University of Tübingen

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