Bert Sakmann

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Bert Sakmann

Bert Sakmann (born June 12, 1942 in Stuttgart ) is a German physician and physiologist. In 1991 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine together with Erwin Neher . Both scientists received the award for the development of the patch clamp technique for the metrological observation of the movement of charged particles through the cell membrane .

Bert Sakmann is the former director of the Cell Physiology Department at the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research in Heidelberg . Sakmann completed his habilitation at the Georg August University in Göttingen and conducted research at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen. Since 2008 he has headed the emeritus group Functional Anatomy of a Cortical Column at the Max Planck Institute for Neurobiology in Martinsried . He is also head of the Sakmann research group at the Institute for Neuroscience at the Technical University of Munich .

Life

In 1948 he attended elementary school in Lindau . He graduated from high school in 1961 at the Wagenburg-Gymnasium in Stuttgart. He then studied medicine at the universities of Tübingen , Freiburg , Berlin, Paris and Munich until 1967 . After the medical state examination at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich , he became a medical assistant at the University of Munich and a research assistant at the Max Planck Institute for Psychiatry in Munich, Neurophysiology Department with Otto Detlev Creutzfeldt . In 1971 he went to the University College London , Department of Biophysics , to Bernard Katz and completed his medical dissertation in 1974 with the title Electrophysiology of neural light adaptation in the cat retina (Medical Faculty of the University of Göttingen ).

In 1974 he went back to Otto Creutzfeldt, who was now doing research at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen. Since 1979 he has been a permanent member of the membrane biology department. In 1982 he completed his habilitation with the writing Observation of Transmitter-Receptor Interaction on the Molecular Level: High-Resolution Current Measurements on Small Membrane Areas of Single Cells and Cell-Free Membrane Fragments at the Medical Faculty of the University of Göttingen and in 1985 became Director of the Cell Physiology Department at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry , Göttingen. In 1984 Sakmann was awarded the Adolf Fick Prize. In 1987 he became a full professor at the medical faculty of the University of Göttingen and was awarded the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize of the German Research Foundation.

In 1988 he became a corresponding member of the mathematics and science class of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences , 1988 Director of the Department of Cell Physiology at the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research , Heidelberg, then he took in 1990 a professorship at the Faculty of Natural Sciences Medicine at the University of Heidelberg on . A year later he became a full university professor at the Faculty of Biology in Heidelberg. Meanwhile emeritus scientific member of the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research, he has been leading an emeritus group at the Max Planck Institute for Neurobiology since 2008 .

In 1983 he received the W. Alden Spencer Award , 1986 the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize , 1988 the Louis Jeantet Prize , 1989 a Gairdner Foundation International Award , 1991 the Ralph W. Gerard Award. Prize , the Harvey Prize , the Carus Medal and the Baden-Württemberg State Research Prize . In 1991, together with Erwin Neher , with whom he had worked in Göttingen, he received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their development of a method for the direct detection of ion channels in cell membranes for research on signal transmission within and between cells . In 2006 he received the Erasmus Medal of the Academia Europaea .

Sakmann founded the Bert Sakmann Foundation, which is administered by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. In 1992 he became a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . In 1993 he was elected a full member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences . In the same year he was elected a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina , since 2008 the National Academy of Sciences.

From 2009 to 2011 Sakmann was founding director of the Max Planck Institute for Biomedicine in Florida . This facility is the first branch of the German Max Planck Society in the United States .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gisela Baumgart: Sakmann, Bert. In: Werner E. Gerabek , Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil , Wolfgang Wegner (eds.): Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-015714-4 , p. 1280.
  2. ↑ Bert Sakmann at the Max Planck Institute for Neurobiology (neuro.mpg.de); Retrieved November 3, 2014
  3. ↑ Anatomy of a cortical column. Retrieved May 23, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Sakmann, Bert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physician and Nobel Prize winner
DATE OF BIRTH June 12, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart