Wolfram Ruf MD, PhD

Prof. Dr. Wolfram Ruf was born in 1958. From 1984 to 1988, he was a doctoral candidate and research associate in the clinical research unit on Blood Coagulation and Thrombosis of the Max Planck Society; he has worked at the Scripps Research Institute/Department of Immunology and Microbial Science, La Jolla, USA, since 1988, and been a professor there since 1996. In 2005, he received the Special Recognition Award in Thrombosis of the American Heart Association. He was selected to become an Alexander von Humboldt Professor in 2012 and took up his professorship for Cell Signaling Pathways of the Hemostatic System in Mainz in April 2013. At the same time, he became Scientific Director of the Center for Thrombosis and Hemostasis (CTH) in Mainz.