DEUTSCHE - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Member of the STS Honorary
- Honorary Member since 2017
- STS Founding Vice President
Job Titles:
- Member of the STS Honorary
- Honorary Member since 2018
- STS Founding President
Job Titles:
- Member of the STS Honorary
- Honorary Member since 2016
- STS Founding Vice President
Merited scientists, who demonstrated particular dedication to the STS by serving as members of the society's council or advisory board, may be recommended to become a STS Honorary Member. Upon approval of the recommendation by the council and the advisory board, the appointed STS Honorary Members have the same rights as ordinary STS members without their obligations. Moreover, Honorary Members are entitled to participate nonvoting at the STS council and advisory board meetings.
The chairmen of the study groups of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Immunologie (DGfI, Ottmar Janssen), Deutsche Gesellschaft für Zellbiologie (DGZ, Ralf Hass) and Gesellschaft für Biochemie und Molekularbiologie (GBM, Karlheinz Friedrich) arranged a new conference named Joint Meeting "Signal Transduction: Receptors, Mediators and Genes" which was held in Langen in November 1997. In 1998, the Gesellschaft für Signaltransduktion (GST) / Signal Transduction Society (STS) was founded by the three meeting organizers, with Ottmar Janssen being the Founding President and Ralf Hass and Karlheinz Friedrich the Vice Presidents. These three founders of the STS were the first to become STS Honorary Members.