Prof. Dr. Jürgen Ruland - Leibniz Prize Winner 2021
Prof. Jürgen Ruland is being honoured with the 2021 Leibniz Prize of the German Research Foundation (DFG).
29.01.2021
Jürgen Ruland receives the Leibniz Prize for his outstanding scientific work in the field of immunology, which has led to a fundamentally new understanding of the signal transmission pathways in immune and cancer cells. Ruland is a leading global immunologist and oncologist who investigates healthy signaling processes in the immune system and those that are deregulated during illness. With his research group, he is studying how immune cells recognize pathogens, initiate the immune defense and how pathologically deregulated signals in blood cells lead to the development of cancer. He also succeeded in elucidating the molecular recognition of fungi by the so-called dectin receptors of the immune system and their signaling processes. These basic findings are important for the diagnosis of immunodeficiency and the treatment of oncological diseases. Ruland's work impressively illuminates how findings from pathology and oncology can form the basis for deciphering the basic mechanisms of the physiology of the immune system.
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