Rudi Balling

Rudi Balling (born October 17, 1953 in Daun-Pützborn ) is a German geneticist . He is the founding director of the Luxembourg Center for Systems Biomedicine at the University of Luxembourg .

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After graduating from high school in Daun in 1972 and completing military service, Rudi Balling studied nutritional sciences from 1974 to 1980 at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn . During this time he was also a Fulbright scholar at Washington State University in Pullman, USA. Rudi Balling then did his doctorate with Henning Beier at RWTH Aachen and the NIEHS ( NIH ) as Dr. troph.

From 1984 to 1986 conducted research Rudi Balling at the Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute of Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto (Canada) at Janet Rossant in one of the world's leading laboratories in the field of developmental biology at Imprintingmechanismen . He then moved to Peter Gruss's laboratory at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen. There he clarified crucial mechanisms in the field of morphogenesis .

In 1991, Rudi Balling completed his habilitation and became head of a Max Planck working group in Davor Solter's department at the Max Planck Institute for Immunobiology in Freiburg im Breisgau. From 1993 to 2000 he was director of the Institute for Mammalian Genetics at the GSF Research Center for Environment and Health (now Helmholtz Zentrum München ). In 1994 he accepted an unscheduled professorship at RWTH Aachen University , which was followed in 1998 by a call to the Chair of Developmental Genetics ( C4 ) at the Technical University of Munich .

From 2001 to 2009 Rudi Balling was the Scientific Director of the Helmholtz Center for Infection Research (HZI) in Braunschweig and honorary professor at the TU Braunschweig . Under his leadership, the focus of the HZI was placed on infection research , which was also made visible to the outside world by renaming the Society for Biotechnological Research (GBF) to HZI. He is a corresponding member of the Braunschweig Scientific Society .

Since his appointment as founding director of the Luxembourg Center for Systems Biomedicine in September 2009, Balling has concentrated increasingly on research into neurodegenerative diseases and systems biological processes.

Around 150 of his works are listed in the Citation Index . These have been cited over 12,000 times. Rudi Balling's Hirsch index is 58.

He is married and has two children.

honors and awards

• Order of Merit of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg , Komtur (2016)
• Adjunct Professor, National Institute of Genetics , Mishima , Japan (2007)
• Guest Professor, College of Life Sciences, Peking University , Peking , China (2006)
• Member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (2002)
• Honorary Member of the Japanese Society of Inherited Metabolic Disease (1999)
• Honorary Member of the American Association of Anatomists (1999)
• Friedrich Wilhelm Prize of RWTH Aachen University (1992)
• DFG training grant , Mount Sinai Research Institute , Toronto , Canada (1984–1986)
• DAAD doctoral scholarship, NIEHS ( NIH ), NC, USA (1981–1982)
• Fulbright scholarship and direct exchange scholarship from Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn and Washington State University , Pullman , USA (1978–1979)

Membership in scientific societies

• President of the Association of Biology, Biosciences and Biomedicine in Germany (VBIO, since 2007)
• President of the Association of Bioscientific and Biomedical Societies (Vbbm, 2003–2007)
• President of the German Society for Genetics (GfG, 2002–2004)
• President of the International Mammalian Genome Society (IMGS, 2001–2002)

Rudi Balling is a member of various Senate commissions and advisory boards .

credentials

1. ↑ Press release of the Helmholtz Association on the change from Rudi Balling to the HZI (GBF)
2. ↑ Press release of the Helmholtz Association on the renaming of the HZI ( Memento of the original from October 31, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 

Web links

• Literature by and about Rudi Balling in the catalog of the German National Library
• Interview with Rudi Balling on www.infection-research.de