Prof. Dr. Michael Schwarz

Prof. Dr. Michael Schwarz
Dept. of Toxicology
Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology
Wilhelmstr. 56
72074 Tübingen
Germany
Tel.: 07071-29-77398
Fax: 07071-29-2273
e-mail: michael.schwarz@uni-tuebingen.de
Date of Birth: 03.12.1948
Nationality: German
Languages: German, English, (French, Latin)
Education and positions
Study of Biology at the University of Tübingen
- 1975
Diploma - 1976
Start of a doctoral thesis at to the Institute of Biochemistry, Department of Molecular Toxicology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg - 1980
Promotion Dr. rer.nat. - Since 1976
Position of a “wissenschaftlicher Angestellter” at the DKFZ - 1984 - 1985
Post-doc at the McArdle Laboratory for Cancer Research in Madison, Wi, USA (group of Prof. Henry Pitot) - 1989
Habilitation at the University of Tübingen in Toxicology. - 1990 - 1993
Head of project group “Tumor Promotion in Liver” at the DKFZ. - Since end of 1993
C3-professor for “Environmental Toxicology” at the Institute of Toxicology, University of Tübingen. - Oct. 2001-Febr. 2002
Acting Director of the Institute of Toxicology in Tübingen - Since March 2002
Director of the Department of Toxicology in the newly established joint Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology at the University of Tübingen - Since 2004
coordinator of the FP6 project ReProTect
Functions
Member of the Executive Committee of the German Toxicological Society
Speaker of the work group Carcinogenesis and Epidemiology of the AEK of the German Cancer Society
Memberships
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Experimentelle und Klinische Pharmakologie und Toxikologie
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Biochemie und Molekularbiologie
Deutsche Krebsgesellschaft (German Cancer Society)