Curriculum Vitae Professor Dr. Eckhard Wolf - Leopoldina
Curriculum Vitae Professor Dr. Eckhard Wolf - Leopoldina
Curriculum Vitae Professor Dr. Eckhard Wolf - Leopoldina
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<strong>Curriculum</strong> <strong>Vitae</strong> <strong>Professor</strong> <strong>Dr</strong>. <strong>Eckhard</strong> <strong>Wolf</strong><br />
Name: <strong>Eckhard</strong> <strong>Wolf</strong> ‘<br />
Born: 21 September 1963<br />
Family Status: married<br />
Academic and Professional Career<br />
since 2003 Director of the Laboratory for Functional Genome Analysis (LAFUGA), Gene Center,<br />
Ludwig-Maximilian-Universität (LMU) Munich, Germany<br />
since 1997 Vice Head, Gene Center, LMU Munich, Germany<br />
since 1995 Appointment as Full <strong>Professor</strong> of Molecular Animal Breeding and Biotechnology,<br />
Gene Center, LMU Munich, Germany<br />
1994 Habilitation, University of Veterinary Sciences, Vienna, Austria<br />
1994 Group Leader, Institute of Animal Breeding and Genetics, University of Veterinary<br />
Sciences, Vienna, Austria<br />
1990 - 1993 Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute of Animal Breeding, LMU Munich, Germany<br />
1990 Promotion, LMU Munich, Germany<br />
1987 - 1990 Doctoral Fellow, Institute of Animal Breeding and Institute of Veterinary Pathology,<br />
LMU Munich, Germany<br />
Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften <strong>Leopoldina</strong><br />
www.leopoldina.org<br />
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Projektkoordination, Mitgliedschaft in Verbundprojekten (Auswahl)<br />
since 2012 Member of the EU project “FECUND - Fundamental cattle reproduction study<br />
since 2012 Member of BioSysNet<br />
since 2010 Member of the BMBF Leading-edge Cluster “m 4 – Persionalised medicine and<br />
targeted therapies“<br />
since 2009 Member of the BMBF competence cluster “Phenomics – as systems biology based<br />
approach to genotype-phenotype projection”<br />
2009 - 2012 Member of the EU project “PLURISYS - Systems biology approaches to understand<br />
cell pluripotency”<br />
since 2008 Member of the DFG Research Unit 1041 “Germ cell potential”<br />
2008 - 2012 Member of FORZebRA (Bavarian Research Council) – Cell based regeneration in aging<br />
2008 - 2011 Coordinator of the BMBF-FUGATO+ network “REMEDY – Reproduction and<br />
metabolic problems in dairy cows”<br />
since 2007 Member of the DFG Research Unit 793 “Mechanisms of fracture healing in<br />
osteoporosis”<br />
2006 - 2009 Member of the EU project “SABRE - Cutting-edge genomics for sustainable animal<br />
production”<br />
2006 - 2008 Coordinator of the BMBF-FUGATO network “FERTILINK – Functional genome<br />
research for the improvement of fertility”<br />
since 2004 Member of the BMBF-NGFN consortium “German mouse clinic”<br />
2004 - 2012 Member of the DFG Research Unit 535 “Xenotransplantation”<br />
2003 - 2009 Speaker DFG Research Unit 478 “Mechanisms of embryo-maternal communication”<br />
Functions in Scientific Societies and Committees (Selection)<br />
since 2008 Dean for Research, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine of the LMU, Germany<br />
Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften <strong>Leopoldina</strong><br />
www.leopoldina.org<br />
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since 2008 Co-Founder and Scientific Director of MWM Biomodels GmbH, Tiefenbach, Germany<br />
since 2008 Board member of the LMU Department of Veterinary Sciences, Germany<br />
since 2007 Scientific advisor of Minitüb GmbH, Germany<br />
2003 - 2011 Head of the scientific board for the program FUGATO of the German Federal Ministry<br />
for Science and Research<br />
2006 - 2011 Member of the DFG-Senatskommission “Grundsatzfragen der Gentechnik“<br />
2006 - 2011 Member of the DFG-Senatskommission “Stoffe und Ressourcen in der Landwirtschaft“<br />
2003 - 2011 Member of the DFG-Senatskommission “Tierexperimentelle Forschung“<br />
2005 - 2012 Member of the DFG-Fachkollegium 207<br />
since 2000 Scientific director of the Bavarian Research Center for Biology of Reproduction e.V.<br />
Honours and Awarded Memberships (Selection)<br />
2008 Member of the Center for Advanced Studies (CAS), LMU Munich, Germany<br />
2005 Call to the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich – Chair for Animal<br />
Breeding, Switzerland<br />
2004 Call to the University of Berne – Chair for Veterinary Genetics, Switzerland<br />
Major Scientific Interests<br />
Our major fields of research are molecular mechanisms of growth regulation and metabolism<br />
as well as biology and biotechnology of reproduction. Transgenic mouse models are used for<br />
the functional analysis of ligands of the EGF-receptor family. In addition, ENU induced mouse<br />
mutants with alterations in clinical-chemical and hematological parameters are characterized<br />
phenotypically and genetically to identify the causal mutations and to establish novel disease<br />
models. In the field of reproductive biology we are particularly interested in the<br />
developmental biology of preimplantation embryos and in mechanisms of embryo-maternal<br />
communication. In addition, somatic cell nuclear transfer is used to study mechanisms of<br />
cellular reprogramming and for the generation of genetically modified large animal models for<br />
biomedical research.<br />
Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften <strong>Leopoldina</strong><br />
www.leopoldina.org<br />
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