Christof Niehrs

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Christof Niehrs (born April 29, 1962 in Berlin ) is a German biologist .

After graduating from high school in 1980, he studied biochemistry at the Free University of Berlin . In 1990 he received his doctorate from the University of Heidelberg on the subject of "Characterization and purification of tyrosyl protein sulfotransferase". After completing his doctorate, he moved to the University of California in Los Angeles as a postdoctoral fellow.

In 1994 he took over the management of the molecular embryology department at the German Cancer Research Center in Heidelberg . In 1997 he completed his habilitation at the University of Heidelberg.

After his habilitation in 1997, at the age of 36, he was offered a C4 professorship for biochemistry at the Ruhr University in Bochum . This was followed by a call to the University of Karlsruhe and the German Cancer Research Center in Heidelberg.

In 2001 he was awarded the Baden-Württemberg State Research Prize for his research on growth genes and the genetic causes of head formation . In 2003 he received the Leibniz Prize .

In 2011 Niehrs was appointed founding director of the Institute for Molecular Biology gGmbH (IMB) in Mainz. In 2002 he was accepted into the Leopoldina . Since 2007 he has been a full member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences . In 2016 he was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ LFP award winners ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. mwk.baden-wuerttemberg.de. Retrieved January 8, 2016.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / mwk.baden-wuerttemberg.de
  2. ^ Institute for Molecular Biology at the University of Mainz officially opened
  3. ↑ Member entry by Christof Niehrs at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on June 19, 2016.
  4. ^ Members of the HAdW since it was founded in 1909. Christof Niehrs. Heidelberg Academy of Sciences, accessed on June 19, 2016 .
  5. ^ American Academy of Arts and Sciences : Newly Elected Fellows. In: amacad.org. Retrieved April 22, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Niehrs, Christof
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German biologist
DATE OF BIRTH April 29, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin