Nenad Ban

Nenad Ban (around 2013)

Nenad Ban (born May 3, 1966 in Zagreb ) is a Croatian molecular biologist at the ETH Zurich .

Life

Ban studied molecular biology and biochemistry at the University of Zagreb from 1986 to 1990 . He earned a Ph.D. in 1994 from Alexander McPherson at the University of California, Riverside. in biochemistry . As a postdoctoral fellow , Ban worked for the later Nobel Prize winner Thomas A. Steitz at Yale University , where he made significant contributions to the X-ray crystallography of the large subunit of ribosomes . He was also able to show that ribosomes are ribozymes .

In 2000, Ban received his first assistant professorship at the ETH Zurich ; since 2007 he has held a full professorship for molecular structural biology there .

Ban works with crystallographic, electron microscopic and biochemical methods to study the structure and function of large cellular structures. Thus, he could, for example, the molecular structure of the fatty acid synthases ( fatty acid synthases , FAS) in fungi (fungi) and mammalian clarify. In humans, the FAS, with its five enzymatically active and two non-enzymatically active protein domains , 2,500 amino acids and a molecular weight of around 540,000 Da, is one of the most complex enzymes .

Awards (selection)

2001 Newcomb Cleveland Prize for The Complete Atomic Structure of the Large Ribosomal Subunit at 2.4 Å Resolution (together with Poul Nissen , Jeffrey Hansen, Peter B. Moore , and Thomas A. Steitz )
2008 member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
2008 Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
2008 Corresponding member of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts
2009 Rössler Prize
2010 Heinrich Wieland Prize
2017 Ernst Jung Prize
2018 Otto Naegeli Prize

Web links

Prof. Nenad Ban and The Ban Group at ETH Zurich (ethz.ch)

Member entry by Prof. Dr. Nenad Ban (with picture and CV) at the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina , accessed on January 8, 2017.

Elisabeth Pain: A Career Revisiting Classical Biological Problems. In: sciencemag.org. July 17, 2009, accessed January 6, 2017 .

Individual evidence

↑ N. Ban, P. Nissen, J. Hansen, PB Moore, TA Steitz: The complete atomic structure of the large ribosomal subunit at 2.4 A resolution. In: Science. Volume 289, Number 5481, August 2000, pp. 905-920, PMID 10937989 .
↑ Nenad Ban. In: archives.aaas.org. August 11, 2000, accessed January 6, 2017 .
^ HAZU • Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts - Nenad Ban - Biography. In: info.hazu.hr. Retrieved January 6, 2017 .
^ ETH Zurich: Rössler Prize. In: ETH Zurich Science Awards. Retrieved March 18, 2017 .
↑ 2010: Prof. Nenad Ban - Heinrich Wieland Prize - Homepage. In: heinrich-wieland-prize.de. October 28, 2010, accessed January 6, 2017 .
↑ Prof. Tobias Moser and Prof. Nenad Ban. In: jung-stiftung.de. Retrieved May 6, 2019 .
↑ Honored educators of the ribosome. In: ethz.ch. April 3, 2018, accessed April 5, 2018 .

personal data
SURNAME	Ban, Nenad
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Croatian molecular biologist
DATE OF BIRTH	May 3, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH	Zagreb

[1] N. Ban, P. Nissen, J. Hansen, PB Moore, TA Steitz: The complete atomic structure of the large ribosomal subunit at 2.4 A resolution. In: Science. Volume 289, Number 5481, August 2000, pp. 905-920, PMID 10937989 .

[2] Nenad Ban. In: archives.aaas.org. August 11, 2000, accessed January 6, 2017 .

[3] HAZU • Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts - Nenad Ban - Biography. In: info.hazu.hr. Retrieved January 6, 2017 .

[4] ETH Zurich: Rössler Prize. In: ETH Zurich Science Awards. Retrieved March 18, 2017 .

[5] 2010: Prof. Nenad Ban - Heinrich Wieland Prize - Homepage. In: heinrich-wieland-prize.de. October 28, 2010, accessed January 6, 2017 .

[6] Prof. Tobias Moser and Prof. Nenad Ban. In: jung-stiftung.de. Retrieved May 6, 2019 .

[7] Honored educators of the ribosome. In: ethz.ch. April 3, 2018, accessed April 5, 2018 .