Reinhard Lührmann

Reinhard Georg Lührmann (born May 15, 1949 in Osnabrück ) is Director at the Max Planck Institute (MPI) for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen, where he heads the Department of Cellular Biochemistry.

Life

Lührmann studied chemistry at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster with a diploma in 1973 and a doctorate in 1975. From 1976 he was a post-doctoral student at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics in Berlin with Heinz-Günter Wittmann and headed there from 1981 a junior research group. In 1982 he completed his habilitation at the Free University of Berlin . From 1988 to 1999 he was Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the Philipps University of Marburg . Since 1998 he has been director at the MPI for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen. He is honorary professor at the Universities of Göttingen and Marburg.

In 1990 he received the Max Planck Research Prize , in 1996 the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize and in 2002 the Feldberg Prize . In 2003 he received the Ernst Jung Prize for his research into the structure and mode of action of spliceosomes in humans, the biosynthesis of the SnRNA , which is part of the spliceosomes, and the intercellular transport of RNA. In 2001 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina . Since 2002 he has been a full member of the Academia Europaea .

personal data
SURNAME	Lührmann, Reinhard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Lührmann, Reinhard Georg (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German biochemist
DATE OF BIRTH	May 15, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH	Osnabrück