After his studies of Biology in Moscow (Russia), D. Kube joint in 1983 the Belosersky-Lab of Bioorganic Chemistry and Molecular Biology in Moscow (Russia) as a PhD-student in the research group of N.K. Nagradova, where he worked on the dynamics of the protein structure of glycolytic enzymes. From 1987 to 1992, D. Kube worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of Molecular Biology in Berlin under the directorship of U. Kiessling. In this time, he specialized in tumor virology. At this time, he studied the role of Human papilloma viruses in cervical carcinomas. From 1992 to 1999, he was postdoctoral fellow at the University Medical Center Cologne where his scientific work concentrated on Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) associated hematological malignancies as well as immunogenetic analysis of cytokine genes. In 1999, D. Kube became group leader at the Department of Tropical Medicine of the Medical Faculty of the University Tübingen extending his studies on EBV and immunogenetic analysis of cytokine genes in infectious diseases. In 2001 D. Kube moved to Göttingen to join as group leader the Department of Hematology and Oncology of the Medical Faculty of the University Göttingen, Germany. His current research interests are concentrating on functional analysis of cytokine signaling in malignant lymphomas under taking into account their genetic variability.

PD Dr. rer. nat. Dieter Kube