Karl Brand (biochemist)

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Karl Brand (born April 22, 1931 in Beilngries ; † November 13, 2010 in Erlangen ) was a German biochemist.

Career

Brand passed the pharmaceutical state examination at the University of Freiburg in 1956 and the medical state examination at the University of Heidelberg in 1961, where he received his doctorate in 1962 under Benno Hess . 1969 followed the habilitation at the University of Bochum. In the same year he became head of department at the Max Planck Institute for Nutritional Physiology in Dortmund and was awarded the Dr. Fritz Merck Prize for Biochemistry awarded. In 1972 he accepted a professorship for Physiological Chemistry at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg , where he headed the Institute of Biochemistry together with Walter Kersten and later with Cord-Michael Becker until his retirement in 1999 .

In October 1987 he was made an honorary member of the Japanese Biochemical Society.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg: Personalia 2010. (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; Retrieved November 23, 2010 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.zuv.fau.de  
personal data
SURNAME Brand, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German biochemist
DATE OF BIRTH April 22, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Beilngries
DATE OF DEATH November 13, 2010
Place of death gain