Kai Simons
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Kai Lennart Simons (born May 24, 1938 in Helsinki ) is a Finnish physician and biochemist .
Life
After receiving his doctorate (MD) from the University of Helsinki in 1964, Kai Simons was a research fellow at Rockefeller University in New York from 1965 to 1967 . In 1967 he switched to the University of Helsinki as a research assistant, where he became head of research in 1972 and was professor of biochemistry from 1971 to 1979. He came to Heidelberg in 1975 as a group leader at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory . Simons worked there from 1982 to 1997 as coordinator of the Cell Biology Program , where he first described lipid rafts .
In 1998 Kai Simons went to Dresden as one of the initiators of the establishment of the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics (MPI-CBG) and became one of the five founding directors of the institute. Since 2007 he has been director emeritus. He headed his research group until 2014. Since 2012 he has been managing director of the biotechnology company Lipotype GmbH, which he founded .
Simons is married and has three children.
Act
His main research interests are cell membrane structure and function , intracellular transport of proteins and lipids , epithelial cell biology , interaction of viruses with cell membranes and cell polarity . He found that many viruses (such as influenza, Ebola, HI viruses and measles) enter and leave the cell via lipid rafts .
In addition to his scientific work, Kai Simons is committed to promoting young talent and women in his field. Its aim is to strengthen cooperative research. For this purpose he launched the "European Life Scientist Organization" (ELSO), of which he was also president. In an article from 2001, Simons summarized his experiences in science policy and reported on EMBL and ELSO, for example. ELSO was merged with EMBO in 2008.
Honors, awards, memberships
- 1975 member of the European Molecular Biology Organization
- 1978 Member of the Societas Scientiarum Fennica , Finland
- 1984 Honorary doctorate from the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg
- 1987 member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences
- 1990 Keith R. Porter Lecture
- 1991 Anders Years Prize
- 1993 "Carl Zeiss Lecture" of the German Society for Cell Biology
- 1996 Dunham Lecturer from Harvard University
- 1996 member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 1997 Runeberg Prize , Finland
- 1997 member of the Academia Europaea
- 1997 member of the National Academy of Sciences
- 1998 " Choh Hao Li Memorial Lecture" at the University of California, Berkeley
- 1998 Honorary doctorate from the University of Oulu
- 1999 member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
- 2001 Schleiden Medal of the Leopoldina
- 2001 honorary membership of the German Society for Cell Biology
- 2002 "Hoppe-Seyler Lecture" by the Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
- 2003 Albert Wander Prize from the University of Bern
- 2003 Ayräpää Prize , Finland
- 2003 Honorary doctorate from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
- 2004 Rudolf Virchow Medal from the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg
- 2005 Laurens van Deenen Medal from the University of Utrecht
- 2006 AI Virtanen Prize in Biochemistry
- 2006 Admission to the Societas biochemica, biophysica et microbiologica Fenniae, Finland
- 2007 Saxon Order of Merit
- 2016 Robert Koch Medal
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ MPI CBG Research Group -: Group Leader. (No longer available online.) In: mpi-cbg.de. May 24, 1938, archived from the original on September 27, 2016 ; accessed on September 27, 2016 . 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.
- ↑ [1] (PDF file)
- ↑ Lipotype Shotgun Lipidomics - About Us. In: lipotype.com. Retrieved September 27, 2016 (English).
- ↑ 1998 - Kai Simons ( Memento from July 15, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Lessons in science politics. In: Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology. Vol. 2, December 2001, pp. 931-933.
- ↑ 2008 congress in Nice heralds fusion of ELSO with EMBO. EMBO press release. August 28, 2008.
- ↑ Member entry by Prof. Dr. Kai Simons (with picture and CV) at the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina , accessed on July 22, 2016.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Simons, Kai |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Simons, Kai Lennart (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Finnish medic and biochemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 24, 1938 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Helsinki , Finland |