Rupert Timpl

Rupert Timpl (born March 4, 1936 in Iglau ; † October 20, 2003 in Munich ) was an Austro-German biochemist who was director at the Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry from 1992 until his retirement . He mainly dealt with the biology and chemistry of connective tissue , which is technically called the "matrix".

Life

Timpl received his doctorate in 1966 from the University of Graz , in 1967 he became an assistant at the Department of Immunology at the University of Vienna . In 1969 he joined Klaus Kühn's department at the MPI for Biochemistry in Munich, where he spent the rest of his life researching. In 1992 he was appointed Scientific Member of the Max Planck Society. He headed the protein chemistry department at the MPI for Biochemistry.

His colleague Jürgen Engel describes the basement membrane protein laminin , which Timpl found together with George Martin from the National Institutes of Health , as his “probably greatest discovery” . The first publication about it in 1979 was the prelude to a literature on laminin that is almost impossible to miss today. In a citation analysis, the laboratory journal named him the “patron of German matrix biology”. Timpl was listed in the Highly Cited Researcher database of the Institute of Scientific Information (ISI) as one of the 250 most cited scientists in the two categories "Molecular Biology and Genetics" and "Biology and Biochemistry".

Timpl was a member of the Sudeten German Academy of Sciences and Arts . The “International Society for Matrix Biology” today awards a Rupert Timpl Prize.

Awards and prizes (selection)

Max Planck Research Award 1991

Monographs

Rupert Timpl, Peter Ekblom: The Laminins (Cell Adhesion and Communication Series), London: Taylor & Francis Ltd 1996, ISBN 3-7186-5807-0 .
Rupert Timpl, David H. Rohrbach: Molecular and Cellular Aspects of Basement Membranes , Academic Press Inc 1993, ISBN 0-12-593165-4 .
Morphogenesis: Cellular Interactions: Papers Presented at a Conference Entitled "Morphogenesis: Cellular Interactions" Held by the New York Academy of ... (Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences) by Raul Fleischmajer, Rupert Timpl, and Zena Werb of the New York Academy of Sciences (Hardcover - August 1998)
Morphogenesis: Cellular Interactions (Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, V. 857) by Raul Fleischmajer, Rupert Timpl, and Zena Werb

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ Laborjopurnal online: Zitationsvergleich 1999-2001: bone, cartilage, connective tissue by Ralf Neumann, 11/2004.
↑ ISMB Newsletter December 2009. Retrieved on April 29, 2017 (PDF; 1.8 MB).

literature

Jürgen Engel: Rupert Timpl: March 4, 1936 to October 20, 2003 , in: Yearbook of the Max Planck Society 2004, ISBN 3-927579-18-1
Georg Wick: Rupert Timpl - A Personal Account , In: International Archives of Allergy and Immunology , Volume 134 (2004), pp. 89-92, doi: 10.1159 / 000078417 .

personal data
SURNAME	Timpl, Rupert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian-German biochemist
DATE OF BIRTH	March 4, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH	Iglau
DATE OF DEATH	October 20, 2003
Place of death	Munich

[1] Laborjopurnal online: Zitationsvergleich 1999-2001: bone, cartilage, connective tissue by Ralf Neumann, 11/2004.

[2] ISMB Newsletter December 2009. Retrieved on April 29, 2017 (PDF; 1.8 MB).