Prof. Dr. Dr. Andreas Beilhack...
... heads the Interdisciplinary Center for Clinical Research Laboratory for Experimental Stem Cell Transplantation at the Departments of Medicine II Pediatrics at Würzburg University Medical School since 2012. He is the coordinator of the Else-Kröner-Research College at Würzburg University, a physician-scientist program for interdisciplinary translational immunology. He studied medicine at the universities of Graz, Vienna, Basel and the City of Hope National Medical Center, USA. In the laboratory of Prof. Ulrich Jäger at the University of Vienna Medical School, Austria, he conducted his thesis research project on molecular mechanismsin chromosomal translocations. He received postdoctoral training in the laboratory of Prof. Stephen Artandi, at Stanford University, USA. Soon thereafter, following his interest in the field of stem cell transplantation, he joined the group of Prof. Robert S. Negrin, MD, also at Stanford University as a postdoctoral research fellow. Since then Prof. Beilhack is working on mechanisms responsible for immune regulation in cancer, inflammation and infectious diseases. In 2015 Prof. Beilhack received a second doctoral degree for his work in the field of immunology and graft-versus-host disease from Würzburg University. The scientific contributions of Prof. Beilhack have been recognized by several research awards, including the Best Science Award 2004 of the American Society of Blood and Marrow Transplantation, the First International ADMO Award 2005, the Stowell-Orbison Award 2007, the Pathologist-in-Training-Award 2007, the Chugai Science Award in 2007 as well as the m4-Award of the Bavarian Ministry of Economic Affairs and Media, Energy and Technology in 2015.