Klaus Rajewsky

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Klaus Rajewsky
Rajewsky in 2017
Born	12 November 1936 (1936-11-12) (age 84) Frankfurt am Main
Occupation	Immunologist

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Klaus Rajewsky (born 12 November 1936 in Frankfurt) is a German immunologist, renowned for his work on B cells.

He studied medicine in Frankfurt, Munich and at the Pasteur Institute, Paris. In 1964 he started working at the Institute of Genetics in the University of Cologne, where he became professor for genetics. He researched Hodgkin's disease and the role of B cells within the immune system. He also developed conditional knockout mice based on Cre-Lox recombination.

He is one of the founding fathers of the (1967). Since 1994 he has been a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences. From 1995 to 2001 he was head of the of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory near Rome. In 1996 he was awarded the Robert Koch Prize (shared with ). In 1998 he founded , together with Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard and .

In 2001 he started working at the Center for Blood Research at Harvard Medical School, Boston, where an additional focus of his work concerns RNAi, especially microRNAs, in conjunction with immune development and control. Since start of 2012 he works at MDC Berlin.

Klaus Rajewsky is a son of the noted biophysicist Boris Rajewsky.

Awards[]

• 1977 of the
• 1994 from the Hoechst Japan
• 1996 Robert Koch Prize, together with
• 1997 for European Science
• 2001 , together with and
• 2004 Honorary degree of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University of Frankfurt am Main
• 2005 for Cancer Research, together with Mariano Barbacid
• 2007 Novartis Prize for Basic Immunology, together with Frederick Alt and  [de]
• 2008 Ernst Schering Prize
• 2009 Max Delbrück Medal
• 2009 William B. Coley Award for Distinguished Research in Tumor Immunology, together with Frederick Alt
• 2010 Ernst Jung Gold Medal for Medicine

External links[]

• Rajewsky lab web page
• Nature Medicine about Klaus Rajewsky (doi:10.1038/86436)