Center for Molecular Medicine Cologne

Prof. Dr. Renata Stripecke - Curriculum Vitae

Education and professional career

since 2022: W3 Full Professor, Chair of Institute of Translational Immune Oncology, Cologne University Hospital, University of Cologne
2008 - 2022: W2 Associate Professor at the Dept. Hematology, Hemostasis, Oncology, and Stem Cell Transplantation, Faculty Member of the MHH Hannover Biomedical Research School in the structured PhD programs “Molecular Medicine”,” Regenerative Sciences” and “Infectious Biology”
2003 -2007: Adjunct Assistant Professor and Molecular Vector Core, Co-director / Dept. Medicine / School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2000 - 2002: University Hamburg (Hamburg, Germany): DFG Habilitation fellow in Genetics and Molecular Biology
1999 - 2003: Assistant Professor of Research: Dept. Pathology, School of Medicine, University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles, CA, USA
1996 - 1999: Research Associate at Childrens Hospital Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA
1994 - 1996: DFG Post-doc, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Los Angeles, CA, USA
1990 - 1994: Pre-doc, European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Heidelberg, Germany): PhD completed (magna cum laude) in Gene Expression.

Research Funding (selected)

2023 - 2024: The Jackson Laboratory, USA
2022 - 2026: Cancer Research Center Cologne Essen (CCCE), Germany
2021 - 2024: Deutsche Krebshilfe, Germany
2019 - 2021: The Jackson Laboratory, USA
2018 - 2020: ForTra/ Else Kroener Fresenius Germany, Germany
2016 - 2021: German Centers for Infection Research – DZIF, Hannover, Germany
2013 - 2014: Else Kroener Fresenius Germany, Germany
2010 - 2013: Deutsche Krebshilfe, Germany
2009 - 2012: Deutsche Jose Carreras Leukämie Stiftung, Germany
2008 - 2019: Collaborative Research Center 738, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
2007 - 2019: Excellence Cluster Rebirth, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
2002 - 2005: Stop Cancer/ USC and UCLA Career Development Award, USA
2000 - 2003: National Cancer Institute/NIH K01/ Howard Temin Award, USA
1999 - 2002: Leukemia and Lymphoma Society Special Fellow Award, USA

Reviewer for Funding Agencies (selected)

German Research Council (DFG) Germany; Deutsche Jose Carreras Leukämie Stiftung, Germany; The Concern Foundation Los Angeles, CA, USA; Deutsche Krebshilfe Germany; Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (FWO), Belgium; Landsteiner Foundation for Blood Transfusion Research, Netherlands; Fundacao a Ciencia e Tecnologia, Portugal; Fund for Scientific Research, Belgium; Life Sciences and Health, Translational Adult Stem Cell Research, Netherlands; Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD), Germany.

Associate Editor

Frontiers in Immunology (Cancer Immunology and Immunotherapy)
Cancer Gene Therapy
Human Gene Therapy

Organization of Conferences (selected)

2022: EMBO/JAX Practical Workshop “Humanized mice, personalized therapies and big data” EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany (main organizer).
2019: EMBO/JAX Practical Workshop “Humanized mice in Biomedicine: Innovations and Challenges”, EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany (main organizer).
2017: EMBO/JAX Practical Workshop “Humanized mice in Biomedical Research”, EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany  (main organizer).
2016: 1st EMBL/ DFG Women in Science Network: “From gene, cells and the immune system towards new therapies” EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany. (main organizer).

Publications

Link to PubMed