Zoltán Ivics#
| Membership Number: | 4750 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2018 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2024 - Head of Department, Clinical Gene Transfer, Fraunhofer Institute for Cell Therapy and Immunology, Leipzig, Germany
- 2024 - Professor, Institute of Clinical Immunology, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
- 2022-2024 Head of Reserach, Division of Hematology, Cell and Gene Therapy, Paul Ehrlich Institute, Langen, Germany
- 2011 - 2022 Head of Division, Division of Medical Biotechnology, Paul Ehrlich Institute, Langen, Germany
- 2010 Guest Professor, University of Debrecen, Debrecen, Hungary
- 1999 -2011 Group Leader, Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany
- 1997 - 1999 Postdoctoral Scientist, The Netherlands Cancer Institute, The Netherlands
- 1997 - 1997 Research Associate, University of Minnesota, USA
- 1994 - 1997 Postdoctoral Associate, University of Minnesota, USA
- 1991 - 1994 Visiting Research Fellow, University of Minnesota, USA
- 1988 - 1991 Research Assistant, Agricultural Biotechnology Research Center, Gödöllô, Hungary
Fields of Scholarship
- Functional genomics
- Biology of transposable elements
- Clinical trials
- Synthetic biology
- Genetic engineering
- DNA recombination
- Gene therapy
- Nonviral gene transfer
Honours and Awards
- 2025 German Society of Gene Therapy, President
- 2024 Doctor et Professor Honoris Causa, Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE), Budapest, Hungary
- 2022 Elected Foreign Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences – Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
- 2016 German Society of Gene Therapy, Member of the Board (elected)
- 2015 German Stem Cell Network, Member of the Committee “Clinical trials and regulatory affairs” (elected)
- 2012 - 2022 European Society of Gene and Cell Therapy, Member of the Board (elected)
- 2012 - 2016 Faculty member of the Center for Cell and Gene Therapy of the LOEWE (Landes-Offensive zur Entwicklung Wissenschaftlich-ökonomischer Exzellenz) program in Hessen, Germany
- 2010 European Society of Gene and Cell Therapy, Vector Committee (elected member)
- 2009 Molecule of the Year 2009 - International Society for Molecular and Cell Biology and Biotechnology Protocols and Researches
- 1997 Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), postdoctoral research fellowship
- 1996 Human Frontier Science Program Organization (HFSPO), short-term postdoctoral research fellowship
- 1988 Hungarian Academy of Sciences, doctoral fellowship
