Heinz Baumann is working as an Associate Professor in the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology at Roswell Park Cancer Institute. He has done his BA (Natural Sciences) from Cantonal College, Winterthur, Switzerland, 1966, MS (Biology) from University of Zurich, Switzerland, 1971, PhD (Biology) from University of Zurich, Switzerland, 1974. His research interest is: Regulation of Gene Expression and Cell Proliferation by Hormones and Cytokines as Part of Homeostasis, Stress Response, Inflammation and Tumorigenesis. A network of cytokines, growth factors, hormones, and various biologically active metabolites control systemic homeostasis in the postnatal organism. Cytokines are major regulators of those evolutionarily conserved processes that determine, among others, the tissue response to injury, mediate inflammation, activate systemic acute phase reaction and fever, and direct the innate and adaptive immune responses. This laboratory pursues two long-term research programs. The first program has the overall goal of characterizing the cellular and molecular action of cytokines that mediated the local and systemic response to tissue damage and modulated tumor growth. The second program focuses on the genetics and biology of the hepatic acute phase response and the physiological role of the plasma proteins induced by inflammation.

Regulation of Gene Expression and Cell Proliferation by Hormones and Cytokines as Part of Homeostasis, Stress Response, Inflammation and Tumorigenesis