Peter Hegemann

Peter Hegemann (born December 11, 1954 in Münster ) is a German biophysicist and professor at the Humboldt University in Berlin .

Life

Hegemann studied chemistry in Münster and Munich and received his doctorate in Munich in 1984 with the thesis Halorhodopsin, the light-driven chloride pump in Halobacterium halobium. Research on structure and function. From 1984 to 1985 he was a post-doctoral student in Dieter Oesterhelt's group in Munich and from 1985 to 1986 with Kenneth W. Foster at Syracuse University . Since 1986 he was head of a working group in the Department of Membrane Biochemistry at the Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry . He held a professorship at the University of Regensburg before he was appointed to the Humboldt University in Berlin in 2004.

Act

Hegemann is one of the discoverers of the channelrhodopsins , a family of light-activated ion channels . This discovery has brought new opportunities to science in the study of neural networks and the new field of optogenetics . Other hoped-for successes of the application lie in the regaining of lost vision and the treatment of Parkinson's disease and other neurological diseases by means of deep brain stimulation .

Awards (selection)

• 2010 Wiley Prize in Biomedical Sciences , together with Georg Nagel and Ernst Bamberg
• 2010 Karl Heinz Beckurts Prize , together with Georg Nagel and Ernst Bamberg
• 2012 Zülch Prize
• 2012 member of the Leopoldina
• 2013 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize
• 2013 Louis Jeantet Prize , together with Georg Nagel
• 2013 Brain Prize
• 2014 member of EMBO
• 2014 member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences
• 2014 Member of the German Academy of Science and Engineering ( acatech )
• 2015 Hertie Senior Research Professorship in Neuroscience at the Hertie Foundation
• 2015 Berlin Science Award
• 2016 Hector Science Award
• 2016 Massry Prize
• 2016 Harvey Prize of the Technion Institute in Haifa / Israel (awarded in 2017)
• 2017 Gregor Mendel Medal of the Leopoldina
• 2018 Otto Warburg Medal
• 2018 Canada Gairdner International Award
• 2019 Rumford Prize
• 2019 Warren Alpert Foundation Prize
• 2020 Shaw Prize

Web links

• Prof. Peter Hegemann, profile and working group at the Humboldt University of Berlin (hu-berlin.de); Retrieved February 3, 2016
• Prof. Dr. Peter Hegemann at the Cluster of Excellence “Unifying Concepts in Catalysis” (unicat.tu-berlin.de); Retrieved April 26, 2011

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Peter Hegemann at the Grete Lundbeck European Brain Research Foundation (thebrainprize.org); Retrieved March 12, 2013
2. ↑ Ninth Annual Wiley Prize in Biomedical Sciences Awarded to Dr. Peter Hegemann, Dr. Georg Nagel, and Dr. Ernst Bamberg at wiley.com; Retrieved April 26, 2011
3. ^ Winner of the Karl Heinz Beckurts Foundation (beckurts-stiftung.de); Retrieved February 3, 2016.
4. ↑ Member entry of Peter Hegemann at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on January 22, 2013.
5. ↑ prezenz.com: Fondation Louis Jeantet - The Winners of the Louis Jeantet Prize for Medicine. In: jeantet.ch. Retrieved February 3, 2016 . 
6. ↑ EMBO enlarges its membership for 50th anniversary. Press release from May 8, 2014 at the Science Information Service (idw-online.de)
7. ↑ Julia Juckel: Hertie Foundation honors outstanding neuroscientists. Not-for-profit Hertie Foundation, press release from May 28, 2015 at the Informationsdienst Wissenschaft (idw-online.de), accessed on May 29, 2015.
8. ↑ Müller presents the science award to Prof. Dr. Peter Hegemann - Dr. Tine Hanrieder receives young talent award - Berlin.de. In: berlin.de. November 20, 2015, accessed November 20, 2015 . 
9. ↑ Ibou Diop: Hector Science Prize goes to biophysicists from Humboldt University. Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, press release from January 29, 2016 from Informationsdienst Wissenschaft (idw-online.de), accessed on January 30, 2016.
10. ↑ Hector Fellow Academy / www.hector-fellow-academy.de / [e-mail]: 2016: Hector Fellow Academy. In: www.hector-fellow-academy.de. Retrieved October 27, 2016 . 
11. ^ Harvey Prize 2016