Biography

Tier 1 South African Research Chair in Cancer Biotechnology hosted by the Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine (IDM) and the Department of Integrated Biomedical Sciences, awarded by the South African Research Chairs Initiative (SARChI) of the Department of Science and Technology (DST), administered through the National Research Foundation (NRF) (since 2015).Full professor in the Department of Integrated Biomedical Sciences at University of Cape Town and full member at the Institute for Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine IDM (since 2015). University Professor for Experimental Medicine and Immunotherapy at the Rheinisch-WestfälischeTechnischeHochschule (RWTH) Aachen University, Germany (2006-2015). Head of Department of Pharmaceutical Product Development at the Fraunhofer Institute for Molecular Biology and Applied Ecology IME in Aachen, Germany (2000-2015). Habilitation in Experimental Internal Medicine (2001), DMSc in Experimental Medicine (Dr. rer. medic.) at the Department of Internal Medicine, University of Cologne, Germany (1997), PhD in biology (Dr. rer. nat.) at the Institute of Molecular Physiology and Biotechnology of Plants, University of Bonn, Germany (1994), MSc in Biology at the University of Bonn, Germany (1991).