Contact
Gene Center and Department of Biochemistry
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Postal Address: Feodor-Lynen-Straße 25
Visiting Address: BioSysM, Butenandtstraße 1
81377 Munich
Germany
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Postal Address: Feodor-Lynen-Straße 25
Visiting Address: BioSysM, Butenandtstraße 1
81377 Munich
Germany
Room:
K 01.009
Phone:
+49 (0)89 - 2180 71109
Email:
hornung@genzentrum.lmu.de
Website:
Hornung Lab - Innate Immunity
Assistant: Annika Büscher
phone: +49 (0)89 - 2180 71110
hornung.office@genzentrum.lmu.de
Scientific Vita
| Year | Function | Institute |
|---|---|---|
| since 2015 |
Chair of Immunobiochemistry (W3) | Gene Center and Department of Biochemistry, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany |
| 2014-2015 | Director (W3) | Institute of Molecular Medicine, University Hospital, University of Bonn, Germany |
| 2008-2013 | Professor of Clinical Biochemistry (W2) | Institute for Clinical Chemistry and Clinical Pharmacology, University Hospital, University of Bonn, Germany |
| 2006-2008 | Postdoctoral research fellow | Laboratory of Prof. Dr. Eicke Latz and Prof. Dr. Kate Fitzgerald in the Division of Infectious Diseases and Immunology at the University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester, USA |
| 2005-2006 | Group leader "Therapeutic Oligonucleotides" | Division of Clinical Pharmacology, LMU, Munich, Germany |
| 2003-2006 | Research fellow / Postdoctoral research fellow | Laboratory of Prof. Dr. Gunther Hartmann in the Division of Clinical Pharmacology at the University, Hospital Munich, LMU, Munich, Germany |
| 1996-2003 | Study of Medicine | University of Munich, LMU, including rotations at Harvard University (Boston, USA) and University of Zurich (Zurich, Switzerland) |
Awards and Honors
- 2021 ERC Advanced Grant
- 2020 William B. Coley Award for Distinguished Research in Basic and Tumor Immunology
- 2018 Liliane Bettencourt Prize for Life Sciences
- 2018 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize (DFG)
- 2016 Elected Leopoldina Member
- 2015 ERC Consolidator Grant
- 2015 Elected EMBO Member
- 2014 Designated as a Highly Cited Researcher in the field of Immunology by Thomson Reuters
- 2013 Pettenkofer Prize of the Pettenkofer Foundation
- 2010 Paul-Martini-Prize of the Paul-Martini-Foundation
- 2010 Award for Basic Medical Research of the GlaxoSmithKline Foundation
- 2007 Heinz Maier Leibnitz Prize of the German Research Foundation
- 2006 Graduate-Scholarship of the Novartis-Foundation for the Therapeutical Research
- 2002 Study Scholarship of the Munich-Harvard-Alliance
Currently funded Projects
- Collaborative Research Center TRR 338 LETSIMMUN - Lymphocyte Engineering for Therapeutic Synthetic Immunity
- Collaborative Research Center TRR 237 Nucleic Acid Immunity
- Collaborative Research Center 1054 Control and Plasticity of Cell-Fate Decisions in the Immune System
- Collaborative Research Center 1403 Cell Death in Immunity, Inflammation and Disease