Awards
1995 Annual research award for young investigators by the German Society of Microbiology
1997 Hygiene-Award of the Rudolf-Schlke Foundation
1999 Georges Köhler-Award of the German Society of Immunology
2000 Annual Main Award of the German Society for Microbiology and Hygiene
2008 First Prize for Excellency in Teaching Medical Students (Clinical Sciences),
Medical Faculty, FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg
2009 First Prize for Excellency in Teaching Medical Students (Clinical Sciences),
Medical Faculty, FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg
2010 First Prize for Excellency in Teaching Medical Students (Clinical Sciences),
Medical Faculty, FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg
2011 Second Prize for Excellency in Teaching Medical Students (Clinical Sciences),
Medical Faculty, FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg
2011- Member of the National Academy of Science Leopoldina
2012 Second Prize for Excellency in Teaching Medical Students (Clinical Sciences),
Medical Faculty, FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg

Positions in Scientific Societies
1996-2002 Board of the Study Group "Macrophages/Innate Immunity" of the German Society for Immunology
2001-2003 President of the Gesellschaft fr NO-Forschung (Germany, Switzerland, Austria)
2001-2005 President of European Macrophage and Dendritic Cell Society (EMDS)
2005-2011 Secretary of the European Macrophage and Dendritic Cell Society (EMDS)
2005- Elected Member of the Council of the German Society of Immunology
2009- Chairman of the Societas PhysicoMedica
Erlangensis
2009-2013 Elected member of the Council of the Society of Leukocyte Biology
Editorial Positions
1995- Advisory Editor of The Journal of Experimental Medicine
1998- Member of the Editorial Board of Infection and Immunity
2004- "Editorial Board" of Nitric Oxide - Biology and Chemistry
2006-2010 "Associate Editor" of The Journal of Immunology
2007- Member of the Editorial Board of The European Journal of Immunology