Dietrich Mebs

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Dietrich Mebs (born February 20, 1942 ) is a German toxinologist and former university professor.

Life and career

After graduating from high school in 1962, Mebs studied biology and biochemistry in Frankfurt am Main . From 1964 he became a student assistant with Hans-Walter Raudonat at the Institute for Forensic and Social Medicine and dealt with work on the biochemistry of snake venoms .

During research stays in São Paulo , Brazil , from 1966 onwards , he mainly worked on the isolation of enzymes from snake venom and wrote his dissertation on it, with which he was awarded a doctorate in August 1968. phil. nat. received his doctorate.

From 1968 he was a research assistant at the Center for Forensic Medicine. In 1970/71, during a research stay at Osaka University in Japan, he succeeded in elucidating the complete amino acid sequence of alpha-bungarotoxin .

1979 Mebs qualified as a professor Forensic Medicine with a thesis on genetically determined polymorphism of erythrocytes - enzymes and in 1985 an honorary professor at the University of Frankfurt appointed.

After completing his work as a university lecturer at the University Hospital Frankfurt in 2007, he became a member of a consortium which, funded by the EU, investigates poisons from cone snails (Drug Discovery 2007–2012).

Mebs has been Treasurer of the International Society on Toxinology since 1982 . In 2007 he received the Jean Servais Stas Medal.

Publications

  • Comparative biochemical studies on snake venom. Frankfurt 1968; (University thesis; Faculty of Natural Sciences, dissertation from July 15, 1968); also in: Hoppe-Seyler's magazine for physiological chemistry . Vol. 349. 1958 under the title: Comparative enzyme studies on snake venom with special consideration of their casein-cleaving proteases. Pp. 1115-1125
  • Biochemical studies on the genetically determined polymorphism of three forensically relevant enzymes (phosphoglucomutase, adenosine deaminase, adenylate kinase). University (university thesis), Frankfurt (Main) 1978 (habilitation thesis, 1979)
  • Poisons in the reef. Toxicology and Biochemistry of a Habitat. Scientific Publishing Society, Stuttgart 1989; ISBN 3-8047-1053-0 (textbook)
  • with T. Shier: Handbuch der Toxinology. 1990
  • Poisonous animals. A manual for biologists, toxicologists, doctors, pharmacists. Scientific Publishing Society, Stuttgart 1992; ISBN 3-8047-1219-3 - was named the best medical textbook in 2006
  • Venomous and Poisonous Animals. 2002

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ [1] (Awarded the Jean Servais Stas Medal; PDF; 114 kB)
personal data
SURNAME Mebs, Dietrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German toxinologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH February 20, 1942