Christof von Kalle, MD
Chief Research Officer – Sidra Medicine, Doha, Qatar
Head, Department of Translational Oncology, NCT and German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ)
Im Neuenheimer Feld 460, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
+49 6221 56-6991; christof.kalle@nct-heidelberg.de
Scientific Vita
Since Apr 2018 Chief Research Officer (CRO),
Sidra Medicine, Doha, Qatar
2005 – pres Head, Department of Translational
Oncology, NCT and DKFZ, Heidelberg, Germany
2005 – Mar 2018 Director, NCT, Heidelberg, Germany
2005 – 2008 Adjunct professor, Pediatrics, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center,
Division of Experimental Hematology, Cincinnati, OH, USA
2004 – 2005 Tenured associate professor, Internal Medicine, Freiburg University, Germany
2002 – 2005 Associate professor, Pediatrics, program leader “Gene and Molecular Therapy”,
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, USA
2000 – 2005 Group leader, Section of Hematopoiesis and Gene Transfer, Institute for Molecular
Medicine, Freiburg University, Germany
1996 – 2005 Senior clinical investigator, Gene Therapy Program, and senior medical staff fellow,
Department of Internal Medicine, Freiburg University Medical School
1995 – 1996 Clinical investigator and senior resident, Department of Internal Medicine,
University of Cologne Medical School, Germany
1992 – 1994 Associate in clinical research, Program of Transplantation Biology, Fred Hutchinson
Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA
1991 Medical PhD degree
Awards
2014 Pioneer Series Award, Human Gene Therapy
2011 Eva Luise Köhler Award for Rare Diseases
2005 Langen Research Award, Paul-Ehrlich-Institute, Langen, Germany
2004 Elected, American Society of Clinical Investigation (ASCI)
2003 Young Investigator Award, American Society of Gene Therapy (ASGT)
1999 van Bekkum Award, European Group for Blood and Marrow Transplantation (EGBMT)
Fields of Interest
Haematology, oncology; short and long term hematopoiesis, clinical research, molecular and gene
therapy for cancer and inherited diseases, cancer stem cells, retrovirology
