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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

AG Löhning

Pitzer-Labor Arthroseforschung: Molekulare Schalter zur biologischen Gelenkregeneration