Zoltan Ivics
Paul Ehrlich Institute, Langen
Zoltán Ivics received his PhD in molecular biology in 1994. After postdoctoral studies at the University of Minnesota in the USA and the Netherlands Cancer Institute, he was appointed as a research group leader at the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in Berlin, Germany. He was appointed as Head of Division at the Paul Ehrlich Institute in Langen, Germany, in 2011, where he is currently heading the Research Centre embedded in the Division of Hematology, Gene and Cell Therapy. Prof. Ivics’ major scientific achievement is the molecular reconstruction of the Sleeping Beauty transposon and development of technologies based on Sleeping Beauty gene transfer for a wide array of applications involving genetic engineering of cells.