Erich Wanker

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Erich Engelbert Wanker (born February 13, 1965 in Klagenfurt ) is an Austrian biotechnologist .

Wanker studied biotechnology from 1983 to 1992 and did his doctorate at the Technical University of Graz . He conducted research from 1993 to 1995 at the University of California , from 1995 to 2001 at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics in Berlin, and since 2001 at the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine , Berlin. Wanker is Professor of Molecular Medicine at the Charité .

In 2008 he received the Erwin Schrödinger Prize . Together with an interdisciplinary research team made up of molecular biologists, biotechnologists , computer scientists and engineering scientists, Wanker created the circuit diagram of the human protein network for the first time and demonstrated the interactions between proteins that help to understand disease mechanisms. Wanker published the team's research results in the journal Cell in 2005 .

Further research by Wanker was in particular studies in the field of the neurodegenerative disease Huntington's disease . Wanker had found that in addition to Alzheimer's disease , faulty deposits of protein molecules in Huntington 's disease can lead to clumping and thus to dysfunction of important nerve cells .

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  1. ↑ Erwin Schrödinger Prize awarded to the Max Delbrück Center - Unique “circuit diagram” for human proteins developed for the first time ( memento of the original from January 3, 2011 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. Official website of the Max Delbrück Center @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.mdc-berlin.de
  2. ↑ Cell , Vol. 122, No. 6, September 23, 2005, pp. 957-968
  3. ^ A Biochemical Approach to Huntington's Disease ( Memento of March 21, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ Development of drugs for the treatment of Huntington's disease and Alzheimer's disease ( Memento of the original dated May 23, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Official website of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.biotechnologie.de
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SURNAME Wanker, Erich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wanker, Erich E .; Wanker, Erich Engelbert (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian biotechnologist
DATE OF BIRTH February 13, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Klagenfurt