Anna Starzinski-Powitz

Anna Starzinski-Powitz grew up in Mainz, Germany, and obtained her undergraduate training from the university there, completing her diploma (equivalent to a masters degree) in 1975. She obtained her PhD thesis in cellular immunology under the supervision of Hermann Wagner and Martin Röllinghoff. She was a postdoc in Francois Jacob’s lab at the Institute Pasteur in Paris and in Walter Doerfler’s lab at the Institute of Genetics in Cologne. She started her independent research career at the Institute of Genetics, finally leaving Cologne in 1990, when she was appointed to a full professorship at the Goethe Universität in Frankfurt.