Professor Thomas F. Meyer has become a new senior professor at the Faculty of Medicine at Kiel University (CAU). CAU Vice President of Research Prof. Karin Schwarz, together with the Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, Prof. Joachim Thiery, and the PMI spokesperson, Prof. Stefan Schreiber, this Tuesday (1 September 2020) presented the internationally renowned infectologist and cancer researcher with the certificate of appointment. This senior professorship, lasting five years, honors selected, outstanding individuals with nationally and internationally acclaimed research achievements or particular teaching achievements. Meyer was most recently Director of the Molecular Biology Department at the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology (MPIIB) in Berlin, and is now launching a new working group with a focus on "Infection Oncology" at the Institute of Clinical Molecular Biology (IKMB) at the CAU and the UKSH, and will conduct his research within the Cluster of Excellence "Precision Medicine in Chronic Inflammation" (PMI).

You can find PMI press release here