Prof. Andreas Meinhardt Date of birth: March 30, 1963
ACADEMIC RECORD
1990
Master of Science in Human Biology (Marburg)
1994
PhD thesis, Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology (Marburg)
1994-1995
Visiting Research Fellow, Institute of Reproduction and Development, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
1995-2001
Lecturer, Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Philipps-University Marburg
2002
Professor (C3), Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, JLU Giessen
2010
Professor, Hudson Institute of Medical Research, Monash University, Australia
2011
Professor (W3, Full Professor), Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, JLU Giessen
2014
Adjunct Professor, Department of Anatomy and Developmental Biology, Monash University, Australia
2017
President International Society of Andrology
AWARDS
1997
International Visiting Research Fellowship Award, Faculty of Life Sciences, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia
1999
Award of the International Journal of Andrology and the European Academy of Andrology for the second best paper published in 1998 in the Int J Androl. Meinhardt et al. (1998) Int J Androl 21:301-307.
1998
Foundation of the German Chemical Industry for selected young researchers
2012
J Christian Herr Award of the American Society for Reproductive Immunology for excellence in reproductive immunology
GRANTS(truncated, since 2011)
2008-2011
DFG Clinical Research Unit KFO 181/1 “Male factor Infertility due to Impaired Spermatogenesis“, Giessen-Marburg. Project „Molecular mechanism of impaired spermatogenesis caused by uropathogenic Escherichia coli (UPEC) infection of the testis”. (Meinhardt, Chakraborty)
2008-2011
DFG-Project Grant (Me 1323/4-4) “Role of dendritic cells, testosterone and galectin-1 in the pathogenesis of experimental autoimmune orchitis”. (Meinhardt)
2008-2011
Behring-Roentgen-Foundation, Infrastructure grant Laser microdissection (Steger/Meinhardt)
2010-2012
Machbarkeitsfonds (Fund for translational projects): ER60 as diagnostic marker of inflammatory male infertility (Meinhardt, Fijak)
2010-2013
National Health and Medical Research Council, Australia. #APP 545961 / Project grant: The role of Toll-like receptor signalling in testicular physiology and pathology. (M. Hedger, P. Hertzog, S. Meachem, A. Meinhardt)
2011-2014
Landesoffensive für Entwicklung wiss. Exzellenz (LOEWE) Male Infertility in Infection and Inflammation. Project A1: Initiation, progression and termination of UPEC infection in epididymis. (Meinhardt, Fijak)
2011-2014
DFG Clinical Research Unit KFO 181/2“Mechanism of male factor infertility“, Giessen-Marburg. Project TP 5 „Mechanism of impairment of testicular function by immune evasive mechanisms of uropathogenic Escherichia coli(UPEC)” (Meinhardt, Chakraborty)
2013
DFG/TWAS Research cooperation with Nigeria / Support for visiting researcher
2014–2017
National Health and Medical Research Council, Australia. Project grant #APP 1063843 Activin and its binding protein, follistatin regulate functions of the epididymis and vas deferens. (Hedger, de Kretser, Meinhardt, Loveland).
2013-2017
International Research Training Group JLU Giessen- Monash University “Molecular pathogenesis of male reproductive disorders”, contains 9 projects and central funds. Function: German spokesperson.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS (since 2011, 5 selected)
Bhushan S, Tchatalbachev T, Lu Y, Fijak M, Chakraborty T, Meinhardt A. (2015). Differential activation of inflammatory pathways in testicular macrophages provides a rationale for their subdued inflammatory capacity. J Immunol 194:5455-5464.
Walecki M, Eisel F, Klug J, Baal N, Paradowska-Dogan A, Wahle E, Hackstein H, Meinhardt A, Fijak M. (2015). Androgen receptor regulates CD4+CD25+Foxp3+ regulatory T cell differentiation through binding to the foxp3 locus. Mol Cell Biol 26:2845-2857.
Zhang Z, Wang M, Eisel F, Tchatalbachev S, Chakraborty T, Meinhardt A, Bhushan S. (2015) Uropathogenic Escherichia coli epigenetically manipulate host cell death pathways. J Infect Dis. 82(3):1104-1111.
Michel V, Duan Y, Stoschek E, Bhushan S, Middendorff M, Young JM, Loveland KA, De Kretser DM, Hedger MP, Meinhardt A. (2016). Uropathogenic Escherichia coli cause fibrotic remodelling of the epididymis. J Pathol 240(1):15-24.
Khosravi F, Michel V, Bhushan S, Galuska CE, Schuppe H-C, Pilatz A, Galuska SP, Meinhardt A. Desialylation of spermatozoa and epithelial cell glycocalyx is a consequence of bacterial infection of the epididymis. J Biol Chem 291(34):17717-17722.