Principal Investigator
Institute of Molecular Medicine and Cell Research
Stefan-Meier-Str. 17
79104 Freiburg
- +49(0)761 / 203-9610
- tilman.brummer@mol-med.uni-freiburg.de
- W3 professor for Signal Transduction and Medical Cell Research (Heisenberg professorship)
Academic Education
1992 – 1998 | Study of Biology, Albert-Ludwigs-University (ALU), graduated as Diplom-Biologe (German M.Sc. equivalent, Biology) |
Scientific Degrees
2003 | Dr.rer.nat (PhD equivalent), Functional analysis of the B-raf and raf-1 proto-oncogenes in B lymphocytes, summa cum laude |
Professional Experience
since 5/2017 | Heisenberg-Professorship |
2013 – 2017 | Independent Group leader within the Emmy-Noether- and Heisenberg programs of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), Institute for Molecular Medicine and Cell Research, Faculty for Medicine, University of Freiburg |
2008 – 2012 | Independent Group leader within the Emmy-Noether-Program of the DFG, Faculty for Biology, University of Freiburg |
2003 – 2008 | Postdoctoral fellow, Signal Transduction Group (Prof. R.J. Daly), Cancer Research Program, Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Sydney, Australia |
1998 – 2003 | Ph.D. student and postdoctoral fellow, Dept. Molecular Immunology (Prof. M. Reth), Max-Planck-Institute for Immunobiology (MPI IB), Freiburg |
Other activities, awards and honours
since 2016 | Member of the Molecular Tumor Board, University Medical Centre Freiburg |
2015 | Heisenberg professorship of the DFG |
2014 | Heisenberg fellowship of the DFG |
since 2010 | Principal Investigator (PI) and executive board member SFB/CRC 850 |
since 2008 | PI Centre for Biological Signalling Studies (BIOSS), executive board member since 2008, Deputy director (2015-2017) |
since 2007 | PI Spemann-Graduate School for Biology and Medicine (SGBM), executive board member since 2012 |
2007 | Emmy-Noether fellowship of the DFG |
2006 | Nomination by students of the Garvan Institute, Sydney, for the Nature awards for mentoring in science – Australasia |
2003 | Hans-Spemann-Prize for the best Ph.D. thesis at the Faculty of Biology, University of Freiburg |
2003 | Selected delegate for the 53th Meeting of the Nobel laureates |