Helmut Kettenmann

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Helmut Kettenmann

Helmut Kettenmann (born January 12, 1955 in Heidelberg ) is a German brain researcher and neurobiologist .

Career

Helmut Kettenmann studied biology at the University of Heidelberg and as a scholarship holder of the Rotary Foundation at the University of Miami . In his diploma thesis in 1980 at the Institute for Neurobiology at the University of Heidelberg with Melitta Schachner , he dealt with the properties of glial cells , which were discovered by Rudolf Virchow in 1856 and which make up about half of the brain mass. Since then he has been investigating their functions in the healthy and diseased brain. As a scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation , Helmut Kettenmann received his doctorate in Heidelberg in 1982.

From 1982 to 1987 he worked as a research assistant, from 1987 to 1992 as a Heisenberg fellow at Heidelberg University. In 1993 he accepted the position as head of the research group "Cellular Neurosciences" at the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in Berlin-Buch. Since 1996 he has been Professor of Cellular Neurobiology at the Charité University Medicine Berlin.

In 1994 he founded the “European Meeting on Glial Cells in Health and Disease” series. In summer 2013 he organized this conference for the third time. Since 1988 he has published the scientific journal GLIA together with Bruce R. Ransom. Kettenmann was President of the Federation of European Neuroscience Societies ( FENS ) from 2008 to 2010 and President of the German Neuroscience Society from 2013 to 2015 . He was a member of the Search Committee Life Sciences for the Körber European Science Prize .

Prizes, awards and memberships

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Member portrait  ( page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the website of the Körber Foundation, accessed on May 24, 2013.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.koerber-stiftung.de  
  2. Member entry by Prof. Dr. Helmut Kettenmann (with picture) at the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina , accessed on July 15, 2016.