Anthony Hyman

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Anthony Hyman

Anthony Hyman (born May 27, 1962 in Haifa ) is a British cell biologist. He has been a director of the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics in Dresden since 1999 and has been a Leibniz Prize winner in 2011.

Life

Hyman studied zoology at the University College of the University of London , where he completed his bachelor's degree in 1984. From 1985 to 1987 he worked as part of his doctorate at King's College, Cambridge in John White's group on the roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans . This worm was established and studied as a model organism by the later Nobel Prize winner Sydney Brenner . Brenner had been head of the molecular biology laboratory at the MRC since 1979 , where Hyman did his doctorate on developmental processes in cell division in the C. elegans embryo.

After completing his doctorate in 1988, Hyman worked as a postdoc with Tim Mitchison at the University of California in San Francisco until he moved to EMBL in Heidelberg as a group leader in 1993 . In San Francisco as in Heidelberg, he worked on the role of microtubules in cell division, which is still one of his main research areas.

Since 1999 Hyman has worked as a director at the MPI-CBG in Dresden. Since 2000 he has been a member of the European Molecular Biology Organization . In 2007 he was accepted as a "Fellow" (member) in the Royal Society . In 2014 he was elected a full member of the Academia Europaea . In 2011, Hyman received the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize, endowed with 2.5 million euros, for his research on the microtubule cytoskeleton . The Leopoldina awarded him the Schleiden Medal in 2017 and he is one of the winners of the Wiley Prize in Biomedical Sciences 2020. In 2020, Hyman was also elected to the National Academy of Sciences .

Hyman is one of the co-founders of the company "Dewpoint Therapeutics", which received funding of 60 million dollars in early 2019, Dewpoint is to develop new active ingredients using biomolecular condensates. The company is based in Boston / USA.

He was married to the molecular biologist Suzanne Eaton (1959-2019); the couple has two sons.

literature

  • Ruth Williams: Anthony Hyman: From unlikely scientist to Royal Society Fellow (People & Ideas section), in: J Cell Biol. 2007 Dec 31; 179 (7): 1330-1331.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Membership directory: Anthony A. Hyman. Academia Europaea, accessed June 29, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Start of Dewpoint Therapeutics with funding of 60 million US dollars , press release of the MPI Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, May 2019 (English)

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personal data
SURNAME Hyman, Anthony
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British cell biologist
DATE OF BIRTH May 27, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Haifa