Turning research into life.

Professor Christoph Huber, Ph.D., Dr. h.c. mult., comes from a family of scholars in Austria. He was born in Vienna in 1944 as the fourth child of Prof. Paul Huber, who later became a full professor of surgery at the Leopold Franzens University in Innsbruck.

After attending the Schottengymnasium in Vienna and the Akademisches Gymnasium in Innsbruck, he studied medicine at the Leopold Franzens University there. Prof. Herbert Braunsteiner trained him as a specialist in internal medicine at the University Hospital of Innsbruck, where he completed his habilitation in internal medicine in 1976.

Research and training stints in immunology and stem cell transplantation took him to the Karolinska Institute’s Department of Tumor Biology in Stockholm, the Department of Immunology at the Wallenberg Institute in Uppsala, and the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, where he worked under Prof. Don Thomas, who would later win the Nobel Prize.

In 1984, he was appointed Professor of Clinical Immunobiology and Stem Cell Transplantation and Head of the department of the same name at the Leopold Franzens University in Innsbruck. From 1990 to 2009, he headed the Third Department of Internal Medicine, specializing in hematology, oncology, and stem cell transplantation, at the University Medical Center of Johannes Gutenberg University
Mainz.

As a clinician, Christoph Huber first established an innovative stem cell transplantation and immunotherapy program in Innsbruck and then developed the University Medical Center Mainz into a
leading international center for immuno-oncology and stem cell transplantation.

He also founded a successful medical school, staffing numerous relevant professorships in Germany, Austria, the Netherlands, and Sweden. As a researcher, he has focused on investigating the mechanisms of tumor defense, stem cell transplantation, and infection defense, as well as their therapeutic manipulation.

He is the author of more than 500 original papers, most of which have been published in leading journals, and is one of the international leaders in this promising field.