Jan-Michael Peters
Jan-Michael Peters (born August 16, 1962 in Heide ) is a German cell and molecular biologist and scientific director at the Research Institute for Molecular Pathology (IMP) in Vienna .
Life
Peters began studying biology at the University of Kiel in 1982 . He then completed his diploma studies at the University of Heidelberg in 1988 and his doctorate in 1991. He then worked for two years as a postdoc in Heidelberg and at the Harvard Medical School . In 1996, Peters came to IMP, where he first worked as a group leader, from 2002 as a senior scientist and from 2011 also as deputy scientific director. Peters has been the institute's scientific director since 2013.
Peters headed the Mitocheck project (2004 to 2009) funded by the Research Framework Program , an EU funding program . This project served to identify genes that play a role in mitosis . From 2010 he headed the five-year follow-up project MitoSys, which tries to understand mitosis on the basis of systems biology .
Awards
- Membership in the European Molecular Biology Organization
- 2011 Wittgenstein Prize
- 2012 Real member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
- 2014 member of the Academia Europaea
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ MitoSys: Systems biology of mitosis . Retrieved June 21, 2011.
- ↑ Tim Clausen appointed EMBO Member ( Memento from September 8, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ). Retrieved June 21, 2011.
- ↑ Wittgenstein Prize winner 2011 Jan-Michael Peters ( Memento from May 16, 2012 in the Internet Archive ). Wittgenstein Club website. Retrieved June 21, 2011.
- ^ Members of the OeAW: Jan-Michael Peters. Austrian Academy of Sciences, accessed on August 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Directory of members: Jan-Michael Peters. Academia Europaea, accessed on August 2, 2017 .
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Peters, Jan-Michael |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German cell and molecular biologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 16, 1962 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | pagan |