Professor Rolf Müller (born August 13, 1953) is a German

molecular biologist Molecular biology is a branch of biology that seeks to understand the molecule, molecular basis of biological activity in and between Cell (biology), cells, including biomolecule, biomolecular synthesis, modification, mechanisms, and interactio ...

and professor within the Institute of Molecular Biology and Tumor Research,

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. He is working in the area of

molecular oncology Molecular oncology is an interdisciplinary medical specialty at the interface of medicinal chemistry and oncology that refers to the investigation of the chemistry of cancer and tumors at the molecule, molecular scale. Also the development and app ...

with a focus on human ovarian cancer. He is particularly interested in transcriptional networks, therapy resistance, the tumor micro environment and tumor metabolism. This work is intimately linked to the function of the nuclear receptor PPARβ/δ and its potential as a drug target.

Education

In 1979, he received a Ph.D. from the Institute of Cell Biology and Tumor Research,

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with a thesis on "Immunological quantitation of 06-ethylguanine in DNA after alkylation by the carcinogen N-ethyl-N-nitrosourea in vivo and in vitro”, From 1979 to 1981 he was a Research assistant there, and then from 1981–1983 was a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of I. M. Verma, Tumor Virus Laboratory, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, San Diego, California (supported by a DFG fellowship)

Professional career

From 1983–1988 he became a group leader at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Heidelberg, and in 1987 was appointed full professor of molecular biology,

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. For the period 1991–1996, he was also Research group leader, ZMBH,

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Awards and honors

He was awarded the Leibniz Prize (1991) and the German Cancer Award (2000) for his discoveries on the regulation of gene expression by oncogenic signaling pathways and cell cycle regulation. His scientific work has been published in more than 200 articles so far.

References

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