Miscellaneous (Honors, Awards)
Since 2019 Member in the SAB for PSC MAYO Clinic, USA
2019 Elected Member of the Leopoldina, Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften
2018 Swiss liver Prize of the Gastroenterology society 2018
Since 2015 Director of the Cancer Inflammation program at DKFZ together with the NIH
2015 Awarded with an ERC Consolidator Grant on the topic of ‘HepatoMetaboPath’ (EU)
2013 Walther and Christine Richtzenhain Prize for ‘Translation Research in Cancer’
2012 Peter-Hans Hofschneider Award for ‘Research in Gastroenterology’
2010 Awarded with an ERC Starting Grant on ‘Liver cancer mechanism’ (EU)
2009 Götz Prize for ‘Investigating the role of chronic inflammation in disease’
2007 Prof. Dr, Max Cloëtta Award for ‘Neuroinflammation Research’
2006 Empiris Award for Brain Research
2004 Science Creutzfeldt-Prize for ‘Advances in Prion Research’
2004 Scientific-Award of the University Zurich, Switzerland
1999 ERASMUS-fellowship provided by the European Community