
Prof. Dr. Max Löhning
Programmbereich 3, PB 3 – Systemrheumatologie
Gruppenleitung: Pitzer-Labor für Athroseforschung
Liaisonarbeitsgruppe mit Charité - Rheumatologie und Klinische Immunologie
Scientific Backround
Since 2015
Full Professor (W3), Head of Pitzer Laboratory of Osteoarthritis Research
2013 – 2014
Offer of Head of Department of Immunology (W3) at Universitätsmedizin Greifswald; 2014 declined
2006 – 2015
Lichtenberg Professor (W2) of Experimental Immunology, Charité, Berlin
2002 – 2006
Postdoctoral fellow with R.M. Zinkernagel and H. Hengartner at the Institute of Experimental Immunology, ETH and University Hospital Zurich, Switzerland
2000 – 2002
Postdoctoral fellow with A. Radbruch at DRFZ Berlin
1996 – 2000
PhD thesis at the Institute of Genetics, Univ. of Cologne; 2000 Dr. rer. nat.
1990 – 1996
Biology studies at the University of Mainz; 1996 Diploma (“with distinction”)
Since 2020
Guest Professor at Goethe-Universität Frankfurt/Main, Medical Faculty
Since 2013
Member of Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences (BBAW)
2004 – 2009
Member of Die Junge Akademie (The German Young Academy) at the BBAW and the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
Since 2023
Chair of the Foundation Council of Schering Foundation
Since 2017
Board member and Council member of Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences (BBAW)
Since 2017
Spokesperson of the class Biological Sciences and Medicine of Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences (BBAW); 2014–2017 Vice-Spokesperson
Since 2017
Board member of Deutsche Rheumastiftung of German Society for Rheumatology (DGRh)
Since 2012
Vice-Director of Research Center ImmunoSciences (RCIS) at Charité
2010
Georges-Köhler-Prize of the German Society for Immunology (DGfI)
2006 – 2015
Lichtenberg Professorship at Charité funded by Volkswagen Foundation
2004
Robert-Koch-Postdoctoral-Prize of Robert Koch Foundation
2002 – 2004
Postdoctoral fellowship of Ernst Schering Foundation
2002
Avrion-Mitchison-Prize for Rheumatology
2000
Otto-Westphal-PhD-Prize of the German Society for Immunology
1993 – 2000
Diploma and PhD fellowships of the German National Academic Foundation