Biography Adam Antebi

Department Antebi

Scientific Career

2021 - 2023 Managing Director
Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing, Cologne, Germany
2016 - 2018 Managing Director 
Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing, Cologne, Germany
2017 - present Co-director
Undergraduate fellowship program, Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing, Cologne, Germany
2016 - present Chair
Cologne Seminars on Ageing, Joint seminar series with University of Cologne
2013 - present Co-Director
Cologne Graduate School of Ageing Research Ph.D. Program
2010 - present Director
International Max Planck Research School, Ph.D. Program
2010 - present Honorary Professor
University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
2010 - 2012     Managing Director
Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing, Cologne, Germany
2008 - present Director 
Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing, Cologne, Germany
2007 - 2015 Associate Professor 
Huffington Center on Aging and Dept. of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
2004 - 2007 Assistant Professor 
Huffington Center on Aging and Dept. of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
1997 - 2004 Leader of Independent Group
Otto-Warburg Laboratories, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin, Germany
1992 - 1997 Post-doctoral fellow
Dr. Edward M. Hedgecock, advisor. Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
1985 - 1991 Ph.D. student
Dr. Gerald Fink, advisor. Whitehead Institute of Biomedical Research,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
1983 Undergraduate research
Dr. Robert Pasternack, advisor. Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA , USA
1982 Undergraduate research
Dr. Martin Weigert, advisor. Fox Chase Institute of Cancer Research, Fox Chase, PA, USA

Education

1985 - 1991 PhD
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Biology, Cambridge, MA, USA
1979 - 1983     B.A. with distinction in Biochemistry   
Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA, USA

Prizes/ Awards /
Honors

2021    Bennett J. Cohen Research in Aging Award     
2019 Recipient of ERC Advanced Grant 
2016 Elected Member of European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
2016 Allianz/Associations de Prevoyance Sante (ADPS) Longevity Research Award  - Paris, France
2009 Runnstrom Lecture - Wenner-Gren Institute, University of Stockholm, Sweden
2007 - 2011 Ellison Medical Foundation Senior Scholar in Aging
2007 Debakey Excellence in Research Award - Baylor College of Medicine
2005 - 2007 American Federation of Aging Research/Glenn Breakthroughs in Gerontology Award
2005 - 2006 Baylor College of Medicine Seed Fund Award
1992 - 1995 Damon-Runyon-Walter-Winchell Cancer Research Fund Post-doctoral Fellowship
1985 - 1987 Beinecke Pre-Doctoral Scholar
1982 - 1983    Beinecke Undergraduate Scholar
1983 Sigma Xi and Phi Beta Kappa
1981 - 1982 Babette Spiegel Scholar - Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA, USA
1980 - 1981    Anthony Beekman Poole Scholar - Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA, USA

Third-party
funding

2020 - 2025 ERC Advanced Grant
NuAge, Nucleolar regulation of longevity
2020 - 2021 DAAD, Decoding Aging Initiative
in collaboration with Mori lab, Univ Campinas, Brazil
2018 - 2025 DFG/CECAD Cluster of Excellence Cellular Stress Responses in ageing-associated disease
2018 - 2020                      Max Planck Society
Lead development of small molecule activators of GFAT-1, in collaboration with Lead Discovery Center, Dortmund
2018 - 2019 DAAD
Decoding Aging Initiative, in collaboration with Mori lab, Univ Campinas, Brazil
2017  Volkswagen Stiftung
support for GRC conference, Integrative Biology of Ageing
2017  NIH
support for GRC conference, Integrative Biology of Ageing, co-applicant
2015 – 2020 BMBF/EndoProtect
Prevention of neuronal protein aggregation through endogenous mechanisms
2013 - 2018  DFG/Cluster of Excellence Cellular Stress Responses in ageing-associated disease
2011 - 2015 DFG/SFB635 project C9
Regulation of C. elegans developmental timing by the F-box protein DRE-1-FBXO11
2011 - 2014 Max Planck Excellence Funds
Toxic Protein Consortium
2010 - 2017 BMBF/GerontoSys
SyBACol Systems Biology of Aging, Cologne, Grant
2009 - present   Max Planck Society Core Funding
Toxic Protein Consortium
2009 - 2013 DFG/Cluster of Excellence Cellular Stress Responses in ageing-associated disease
2007 - 2011 Ellison Medical Foundation Senior Scholar in Aging
Nuclear complexes that regulate C. elegans life stages and aging
2006 - 2011 NIH RO1
A lipophilic hormone pathway regulating development and aging
2006 - 2010  NIH RO1
An E3 ubiquitin ligase complex that regulates C. elegans developmental timing
2005 - 2007 NIH Nuclear receptor signaling atlas (NURSA)
pilot and feasibility grant
2005 - 2006 Baylor Seed Fund Award
2004 - 2006 BMBF National Genome Research Grant 2
on Aging, Germany
2000 - 2003 European Community Grant
5th Framework, Agegen
1995 - 1997 National Institutes of Health Postdoctoral Training Grant

Scientific
Activities / 
Memberships 

2021                                            Co-Organizer - Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing-Babraham Retreat, virtual      
2020 - present Scientific Advisory Board - Institute for Research on Productive Aging, Japan
2017 Co-Organizer - Gordon Conference, Integrative Biology of Aging, Les Diablerets, Switzerland
2017 Co-Organizer - East Asia Cold Spring Harbor Meeting, Stem Cells, Rejuvenation and Aging, Suzhou, China
2016 Co-Organizer - 2nd Cologne Ageing Meeting, Cologne, Germany
2016 - present Section Editor - Wormbook
2016 - present Chair - Cologne Seminars on Ageing, Joint seminar series with University of Cologne, Germany
2015 Co-Organizer - East Asia Cold Spring Harbor Meeting, Molecular basis of aging and disease, Suzhou, China
2015 Vice Chair - Gordon Conference Biology of Aging, Sunday River, USA
2015 - 2019 Editorial Board - npj Mechanisms of Aging and Disease
2015 - present Advisory Board - BIO-NRW, facilitating biotech start-ups in the state of North Rhine Westfalia, Germany
2014 - 2015 International Steering Committee for Ageing Institute - Mexico City, Mexico
2014 - present Scientific Advisory Board - University of Lyon, Institute NeuroMyoGene, Lyon, France
2014 Scientific Advisory Board - Aging training grant, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, USA
2013 - present Co-director - Cologne Graduate School of Ageing Research Ph.D. Program, Germany
2013 Co-Organizer - East Asia Cold Spring Harbor Meeting, Molecular basis of aging and disease, Suzhou, China
2013 Co-Organizer - Ernst Klenk Symposium, Systems Biology in Translational Medicine
2013 Scientific Advisory Board - Nathan Shock Center, U. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
2013 Ad-hoc Reviewer - European Research Council
2011 Co-Organizer - Cologne Spring Meeting 2011: Model Systems of Aging, Cologne, Germany
2011 Co-Organizer - Aging and Neurodegenerative Disease, Bonn, Germany
2011 - present Editorial Board - Worm
2011 - present Cologne Strategic Alliance - board of major institutes surrounding Cologne-Bonn-Aachen
2011 - present Ad-hoc Reviewer - Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
2010 - present Director - International Max Planck Research School Ph.D. program
2010 - 2018 Executive Advisory Board - Center of Excellence Cluster on Age-related disease,
University of Cologne, Germany
2010 Scientific Advisory Board - Ad-hoc Reviewer, Friedrich-Miescher-Institute, Basel, Switzerland
2009 - 2014 Scientific Advisory Board - Fritz-Lippman-Institut, Leibniz Institute for Aging Research,
Jena, Germany
2006 - 2022 Co-Editor-in-Chief - Aging Cell
2003 Advisory Guest - Max Planck Commission on Gerontology, Munich, Germany
2002 Scientific Advisory Board - Wellcome Trust Grant on Functional Genomics of Aging
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