Magdalena Goetz

Magdalena Götz (* 17th January 1962 ) is a German neurobiologist and university lecturer with the research priorities cell and molecular biology and stem cell research . She is the director of the Institute for Stem Cell Research at the Helmholtz Zentrum München and Chair of the Institute for Physiological Genomics at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . The multi-award-winning scientist is an elected member of several European science academies and has received the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize .

Götz's research focuses on cell and molecular biology as well as stem cell research .

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Magdalena Götz is one of seven children of the Karlsruhe architect and university professor Lothar Götz and his wife Hannelore, nee Grab.

She studied philosophy at the Ruprecht-Karls University in Heidelberg , then as a fellow of the studienstiftung Biology in Zurich and at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen . Until 1992 she did her doctorate in Jürgen Bolz's group at the Friedrich Miescher Laboratory of the Max Planck Society . Magdalena Götz was awarded the Otto Hahn Medal of the Max Planck Society for her doctoral thesis .

In 2004 Götz was appointed director at the Institute for Stem Cell Research of the GSF (today Helmholtz Center Munich ) in Neuherberg and appointed to the chair for Physiological Genomics at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich .

Götz has been an elected member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) and the Academia Europaea since 2006 . In 2007 she won the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize and was also awarded the Hansen Prize . She has also been a member of the Leopoldina since 2007 . In 2010 she received the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon. In 2014 she was awarded the Ernst Schering Prize of the Schering Foundation for her outstanding work on research into the molecular basis of brain development . In 2016 she received the Prix Roger de Spoelberch endowed with 750,000 euros . In 2017 she was elected a member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences . In 2018 Götz received the Schellenberg Research Award from the International Foundation for Research in Paraplegia. For 2019 she was awarded the Gregor Mendel Medal of the Leopoldina.

↑ Götz, Lothar. In: Wer ist Wer ?: The German Who's Who . Volume 15, Arani, 1967, p. 569.
^ Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes: Annual report 2017 , p. 79.
↑ Jürgen Bolz's working group
^ Otto Hahn Medal ( Memento from January 4, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
^ List of Members: Magdalena Götz. Academia Europaea, accessed June 15, 2017 .
↑ Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize
↑ Norbert Lossau in WamS 39/2014 from September 28, 2014, healing for the brain, page 65
^ From Arabic studies to neurology: Bavarian Academy of Sciences elects 20 new members. Bavarian Academy of Sciences , March 22, 2017, accessed on April 11, 2017 .
^ Sonja Opitz: Magdalena Götz receives the IRP Schellenberg Research Prize. Helmholtz Zentrum München - German Research Center for Health and Environment, press release from September 27, 2018 at the Informationsdienst Wissenschaft (idw-online.de), accessed on September 27, 2018.