Thomas Boehm

Current position

Scientific Member of the Max Planck Society, Director

Academic training

1975 – 1982

Study of Medicine in Frankfurt am Main

Scientific qualifications

1987	Habilitation in Biological Chemistry, University of Frankfurt (Mentor: Dr. L. Träger)
1982	Dissertation in Medicine, University of Frankfurt (Supervisor: Dr. D. Drahovsky)

Postgraduate Positions

since 1998	Scientific Member of the Max Planck Society and Director at the Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology & Epigenetics, Freiburg
1995 – 1997	Professor of Experimental Therapy, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg
1992 – 1994	Professor of Molecular Medicine, University of Freiburg
1987 – 1991	Scientist, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK
1982 – 1986	Research Fellow, Centers for Pediatrics and Biological Chemistry, University of Frankfurt

Miscellaneous (Honors, Awards)

2021	Heinrich Wieland Prize of Boehringer Ingelheim Foundation
2014	Ernst Jung Prize for Medicine
1997	Gottfried-Wilhelm-Leibniz Award of the German Science Council (DFG)

• Member, Heidelberg Academy of Sciences
• Member, German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
• Member, European Molecular Biology Organization

link to all publications from T. Boehm: Pubmed

Publications based on CRC1160 funding

Morimoto R, Swann J, Nusser A, Trancoso I, Schorpp M, Boehm T. 2021.  Evolution of thymopoietic microenvironments. Open Biol. 11(2):200383. doi: 10.1098/rsob.200383.

Swann JB, Nusser A, Morimoto R, Nagakubo D, Boehm T. 2020. Retracing the evolutionary emergence of thymopoiesis. Sci Adv. 6(48):eabd9585. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.abd9585.

Woopen C, Straub T, Schweier O, Aichele U, Düker K, Boehm T, Pircher H. 2018. Immunological tolerance to LCMV antigens differently affects control of acute and chronic virus infection in mice. Eur J Immunol. 48(1):120-127.

Nagakubo D, Swann JB, Birmelin S, Boehm T. 2017. Autoimmunity associated with chemically induced thymic dysplasia. Int Immunol. 29(8):385-390.