Roger Goody
Roger Sidney Goody FRS (born April 17, 1944 in Northampton ) is a British biochemist . From 1993 until his retirement in 2013 he was director of the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Physiology in Dortmund .
Life
Roger S. Goody studied chemistry at the University of Birmingham , England, where he received his PhD in 1968 . He then went to the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City , NY, USA as a postdoctoral fellow for 2 years . In 1970 he joined the Max Planck Institute for Experimental Medicine in Göttingen as a research assistant . From 1972 to 1993 he was group leader at the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research , Heidelberg. In 1983 he completed his habilitation in the Department of Biochemistry / Biophysics at the University of Heidelberg and was appointed adjunct professor in 1990. In 1993 he followed a call to the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Physiology and became a scientific member of the Max Planck Society and Director of the Department of Physical Biochemistry. From 2004 to 2009 he also held the chair for biochemistry of macromolecular systems at the medical faculty in Bochum. In 2013 he retired from the MPI for Molecular Physiology.
From 2011 to 2013 and again since 2015 Goody is Vice President of the Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology , from 2013 to 2015 he was its President.
In May 2018 he was inducted into the Royal Society . He is married and has two children.
Goody lives with his family in Dortmund
Memberships
- Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
- German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina - National Academy of Sciences (since 2003)
- Max Bergmann Circle
- Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
- Member of the Board of Trustees and the Scientific Committee of the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) (since 2003)
- Member of the Royal Society (since 2018)
Previous memberships
- 1991–1995 spokesman for the Heidelberg HIV Consortium
- 2000–2004 Chairman of the Committee on Biochemistry, Biophysics and Pathobiochemistry of the German Research Foundation
- 2004–2008 spokesman for the “Fundamentals of Biochemistry and Medicine” section of the German Research Foundation
- 2000–2008 Chairman of Section 1 (Biochemistry, Biophysics, Structural Biology and Bioinformatics) of the German Research Foundation
Honourings and prices
- 1991: Max Planck Research Award
- 2008: Max Bergmann Medal of the Max Bergmann Circle for Peptide Research
- 2012: Astbury Lecture - Astbury Society, Leeds
- 2012: Xu Guangqi Lecture, CAS-Max-Planck Partner Institute, Shanghai China
- 2015: Prize from the Feldberg Foundation
- 2018: Admission to the Royal Society
Web links
- Max Planck Institute for Molecular Physiology, Dortmund: Physical Biochemistry
- GBM - Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology e. V .: Committees
- AG Goody: List of publications
Individual evidence
- ↑ Former board members on the GBM website, accessed May 3, 2015
- ↑ Committees on the GBM website , accessed May 3, 2015
- ↑ Stefanie Schieke: Q&A with Prof. Roger Goody on 50th anniversary of Otto Warburg Medal. Elsevier , October 15, 2013, accessed May 11, 2018 .
- ↑ Election of new board members . In: GBM (Ed.): Biospektrum . tape January 21 , 2015, p. 96-97 ( biospektrum.de [PDF]).
- ↑ Roger Goody. In: royalsociety.org. Retrieved May 11, 2018 .
- ↑ Ruhr-Nachrichten, local section Dortmund, June 15, 2018
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Goody, Roger |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Goody, Roger Sidney (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British biochemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 17, 1944 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Northampton |