Maria-Regina Kula

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Maria-Regina Kula (born March 16, 1937 in Berlin ) was one of the winners of the " German Future Prize " in 2002 , as a key developer of inexpensive biocatalysts through the use of genetically optimized enzymes . Together with her colleague Martina Pohl , she succeeded in isolating formate dehydrogenase from the yeast Candida boidinii , so that the industry can now develop and manufacture new drugs and chemicals on a large scale, inexpensively and in an environmentally friendly manner.

Life

Kula studied chemistry from 1956 to 1960 at the Humboldt University in Berlin and the Ludwig Maximillans University in Munich and graduated with a diploma. In 1962 she received her doctorate. rer. nat.

From 1964 to 1967 she was a DFG fellow at the Johns Hopkins University , School of Medicine, in Baltimore . In 1968 and 1969, Ms. Kula worked as a research assistant at the Max Planck Institute for Experimental Medicine in Göttingen. Afterwards she was department head at the Society for Molecular Biological Research (now Helmholtz Center for Infection Research (HZI)) in Braunschweig until 1985 . From 1975 to 1979 she was also the scientific director of this society. In 1979 she completed her habilitation in biochemistry at the TU Braunschweig . As director and professor, she researched and taught from 1986 to 2002 at the Institute for Enzyme Technology at Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf . Ms. Kula has been retired since March 2002.

Awards and honors

Maria-Regina Kula has been a member of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences and Arts since 1995 and of the German Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech) .

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SURNAME Kula, Maria-Regina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German enzyme researcher and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH March 16, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin