The University Hospital
Dr. med. Benjamin Ruf
Physician in residency & Research group leader
Physician in residency in the Department of Internal Medicine I
Research group leader at the M3 Research Center (https://www.medizin.uni-tuebingen.de/de/das-klinikum/einrichtungen/zentren/m3/tumor-immune-microenvironment)
MINT-CS Clinician Scientist
Contact
E-mail address: benjamin.ruf@med.uni-tuebingen.de
Scientific activity
- 04/2014 - 12/2017: Doctoral thesis (Dr. med.) in the research group "Virotherapy" of Prof. Dr. Ulrich Lauer
- 06/2019 - 06/2023: Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the National Cancer Institute (NCI), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, MD, USA.
- since 07/2023: Research group leader at the M3 Research Center
- since 10/2023: Associate Member - Cluster of Excellence 2180 "Image-guided and Functionally Instructed Tumor Therapies" (iFIT)
- since 07/2024: German Research Foundation-funded Clinician Scientist Program 'Medical Innovation through Interdisciplinarity' (MINT-CS)
Education & professional career
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04/2011 - 12/2017Medical School at Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, Germany; King’s College London and University of Aberdeen (U.K.)
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12/2017License to practice medicine
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12/2017Doctoral thesis (Dr. med.) on the topic "Combination of the oral histone deacetylase inhibitor resminostat with oncolytic measles vaccine virus as a new option for epi-virotherapeutic treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma" (summa cum laude))
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01/2018 - 06/2019Residency in Internal Medicine (focus on gastroenterology, gastrointestinal oncology, hepatology & infectiology), Department of Internal Medicine I, Tübingen University Medical Center
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06/2019 - 06/2023Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Tim Greten's Lab, National Cancer Institute (NCI), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, USA.
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seit 07/2023Residency in Internal Medicine (focus on gastroenterology, gastrointestinal oncology, hepatology & infectiology), Department of Internal Medicine I, Tübingen University Medical Center
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seit 07/2023Research group leader at the M3 Research Center Tübingen
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10/2023Associate Member - Cluster of Excellence 2180 "Image-guided and Functionally Instructed Tumor Therapies" (iFIT)
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07/2024German Research Foundation-funded Clinician Scientist Program 'Medical Innovation through Interdisciplinarity' (MINT-CS)
Prizes & Awards
- 04/2014 - 03/2015: Doctoral Research Fellowship and scholar of the “IZKF- Promotionskolleg
- 09-2016 - 03/2017: Germany Scholarship
- since 05/2019: Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, National Institutes of Health (NIH), USA
- 05/2021: NIH Fellows Award for Research Excellence (FARE) 2022.
- 06/2021: International Liver Cancer Association (ILCA) Fellowship 2021
- 07/2022: Junior Investigator Award ILCA Annual Conference 2022.
- 08/2022: SITC Young Investigator Abstract Award
- 09/2023 DGVS Young Researcher Award in Liver Cancer
- 09/2023: Rudolf Schindler Abstract Prize
- 06/2024: Adolf-Kußmaul-Prize 2024 of the SWDGG
- 10/2024: Fritz and Ursula Melchers Postdoctoral Award of the German Society for Immunology
- 05/2025: Jung Career Advancement Award
- 07/2025: Würrtemberg Cancer Research Award
Publications
Memberships
- German Society for Gastroenterology,Digestive and Metabolic Diseases (DGVS)
- Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer (SITC)
- The International Liver Cancer Association (ILCA)
- American Association for Cancer Research (AACR)
- German Society for Immunology (DGfI)