Heini Murer

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Heini Murer (born August 6, 1944 in Beckenried ) is a Swiss physiologist at the University of Zurich .

Life

Murer studied biology at the University of Freiburg and graduated with a diploma. In 1971 he received his doctorate in biochemistry with Plato Portmann with the thesis Isolation and analysis of eosinophilic horse leukocytes and their granules in biochemistry . As a postdoctoral fellow he worked with Giorgio Semenza (1928–2016) at the ETH Zurich . From 1975 he worked on the physiology of the kidney as a research assistant to Karl Julius Ullrich and Rolf Karl-Heinz Kinne at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysics in Frankfurt am Main . Murer completed his habilitation in 1978 at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main with the thesis The role of the luminal and contraluminal plasma membrane in intestinal resorption, investigation of the transport properties of isolated membrane vesicles for the subject of physiological chemistry (biochemistry). From 1978 he had his own research group at the Max Planck Institute there.

In 1979 Murer received an assistant professorship at the University of Freiburg , and in 1980 an extraordinary professorship at the University of Zurich . From 1996 he was full professor and headed the Institute of Physiology for eight years. In 2006 Murer was Vice Rector for Research, from 2007 to 2010 for Medicine and Science. He retired in 2010, but remained at the university as Director of the Graduate Campus until July 2016 .

Act

Murer was mainly concerned with the biochemistry and physiology of biomembranes . Here he worked, for example, with the method of vesicle preparation of membranes of the microvilli . He examined the substrate transport at the level of the isolated membrane, described transport principles and characterized transport systems such as the sodium-proton exchanger , characterized the renal phosphate transport and described its regulation, cloned the sodium-coupled phosphate transporter , the sulfate transporter and a basic amino acid transporter .

Murer published more than 450 scientific publications . From 1993 to 2004 he was a research councilor at the Swiss National Science Foundation . From 2001 to 2006 he was editor-in-chief of Pflüger's archive - European Journal of Physiology and (as of 2014) is one of the editors of Physiology and on the board of the Academia Engelberg . He has been a member of the board of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation since 2013 .

Awards (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Science, business, politics and society on the Board of Trustees. In: academia-engelberg.ch. July 1, 2016, accessed April 14, 2018 .
  2. ^ Heini Murer at the Academia Europaea (ae-info.org); accessed on May 22, 2014
  3. ↑ Member entry by Prof. Dr. Heini Murer (with picture) at the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina , accessed on July 18, 2016.
  4. ↑ Winners of the university medal "Bene merenti". ; In: Honors awarded by the university. University of Regensburg; accessed on August 1, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Murer, Heini
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss physiologist
DATE OF BIRTH August 6, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Beckenried