Bernd Kaina#
| Membership Number: | 7305 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | BASIC AND CLINICAL TRANSLATIONAL SCIENCES |
| Affiliated section(s): | CELL & DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2025 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.unimedizin-mainz.de/toxikologie/en/research-and-project-groups/prof-dr-bernd-kaina.html |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-8217-0809 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 1976 - 1984 Group leader at the Institute of Genetics and Cultural Plant Breeding, Academy of Sciences of GDR, Gatersleben (Germany)
- 1984 - 1985 Grant holder of the European Community at the Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, State University of Leiden (The Netherlands)
- 1985 - 1987 German Cancer Research Center, Department of Biochemistry, Heidelberg, Germany
- 1987 - 1993 Group leader at the Institute of Genetics and Toxicology, Nuclear Research Center Karlsruhe and University of Karlsruhe, Germany
- 1993 - 2004 Professor of Toxicology and Head of Division of Applied Toxicology, Institute of Toxicology, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany
- 2004 - 2018 Professor of Toxicology, Director of the Institute of Toxicology, University Medical Center, Mainz, Germany
- 2018 - today Senior professor at the Institute of Toxicology, University Medical Center, Mainz, Germany
Fields of Scholarship
- DNA damage and repair
- Genotoxic signaling
- Mechanisms of cell death; apoptosis
- Mechanisms of chemical carcinogenesis
- Mechanisms of drug resistance
- DNA damage response
- Anticancer drugs
- Mechanisms of cellular senescence
Honours and Awards
- 2010 Award of the German Society of Environmental Mutagenesis (GUM Award)
- 2011 Cancer Award of the German Cancer Society
- 2012 Toxicology Award of the German Society of Pharmacology and Toxicology (DGPT)
- 2014 Ulrich Hagen Award of the German Society of Radiation Biology (deGBS)
- 2021 Frits Sobels Award of the European Environmental Mutagenesis and Genomics Society (EEMGS)
- Ranking: Top 50 among 89.376 scientists working in the field worldwide: http://www.expertscape.com/ex/dna+repair
