Rudolf Zechner

Rudolf Zechner (born August 25, 1954 in Graz ) is an Austrian molecular biologist and lecturer at the University of Graz .

Career

After studying chemistry in 1980 at the Karl-Franzens University in Graz, Zechner received his PhD. PhD. He then worked as a university assistant at the Institute for Medical Biochemistry until 1984. From 1985 to 1987 he conducted research at the Laboratory of Biochemical Genetics and Metabolism at Rockefeller University in New York City ( USA ) and then returned to Graz.

From 1990 to 1998 he was an associate professor at the Institute for Medical Biochemistry, from 1994 head of the Department of Molecular Biochemistry. In 1998 he became a full university professor for biochemistry and in 1998/99 he was also head of the institute.

From 1997 to 2006 Zechner was head of the SFB Biomembranes Research Association , Graz, Austria . From 1998 to 2004 he was chairman of the natural science faculty at the University of Graz. Since 1999 he has been Vice President of the Austrian Society for Arteriosclerosis and since 2002 project manager of the GEN-AU project "GOLD - Genomics of Lipid-Associated Disorders". Zechner has been a corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences since 2004, and a member of the editorial team of the Journal of Lipid Research . Since 2007 he has headed the special research area SFB LIPOTOX , in which eleven research groups from three Graz universities work.

Awards and honors

• 1985 Max Kade fellowship
• 1986 Erwin Schroedinger scholarship
• 1990 winner of the Kuner Science Award
• 1990 Winner of the Award for scientific achievements of the State of Styria
• 1996 Hoechst Prize
• 2007 Wittgenstein Prize
• 2012 Cardinal Innitzer Prize (appreciation prize)
• 2015 Louis Jeantet Prize for Medicine
• 2018 Rolf Luft Award
• 2019 foreign member of the National Academy of Sciences

Individual evidence

1. ↑ SFB - Biomembranes ( Memento from December 27, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) (queried April 28, 2009)
2. ^ Genome research in Austria ( Memento from April 26, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) (queried April 28, 2009)
3. ↑ Online press release of the Austrian Academy of Sciences ( Memento from April 13, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (requested April 28, 2009)
4. ↑ Austrian Academy of Sciences ( Memento of the original from September 7, 2011 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. (queried April 28, 2009) 
5. ↑ JLR Editors board (accessed April 28, 2009)
6. ↑ LIPOTOX Project Description (requested April 28, 2009)
7. ↑ GOLD project manager Zechner receives the renowned Wittgenstein Prize ( Memento from April 13, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (requested April 28, 2009)
8. ↑ derStandard.at - Highly endowed prize for Austria's fat research . Article from January 21, 2015, accessed on January 21, 2015.

Web links

• Entry on Rudolf Zechner in the Austria Forum  (biography)