Hans Lehrach

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Hans Lehrach (born November 25, 1946 in Vienna ) is an Austrian geneticist and emeritus director of the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics in Berlin .

biography

Lehrach began studying chemistry in Vienna in 1965 . After completing his doctorate in Göttingen in 1974, he became a research assistant at Harvard University in Boston and from 1978 headed a working group at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg . In 1987 he became head of the genome analysis department at the Imperial Cancer Research Fund in London and its director in 1994. In the same year he was appointed director at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics in Berlin. From 1997 to 2001 he was the spokesman for the German Human Genome Project of the Human Genome Organization . In 1998 he became an honorary professor at the Department of Biochemistry at the Free University of Berlin and a member of the scientific advisory board of the German Primate Center in Göttingen. In 2000 he worked as a specialist reviewer for the German Research Foundation in the field of molecular biology and chairman of the advisory board of the German Resource Center for Genome Research GmbH , Berlin. In 2001 he became a member of the Steering Committee Biotechnology Berlin-Brandenburg, a member of the project committee of the National Genome Research Network NGFN and a member of the scientific advisory board of the Austrian genome research project GEN-AU. He is co-coordinator of the IMI project OncoTrack.

Lehrach is co-editor of the following journals:

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personal data
SURNAME Lehrach, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian geneticist
DATE OF BIRTH November 25, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna