Ulf Rapp

Ulf Rüdiger Rapp (born December 22, 1943 in Wernigerode ) is a German biochemist and doctor .

Life

Rapp studied medicine at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg , after his doctorate in 1970 he went to the USA. He stayed there until 1993, most of the time at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda . Rapp did an important job at the NIH: he clarified the function of the so-called Raf kinase , an enzyme that controls essential processes in the cell and plays a role in many forms of cancer. Rapp returned from the USA at the end of 1993 and took over the management of the "Institute for Medical Radiation Science and Cell Research" at the University of Würzburg .

Rapp also became known in Germany because in 1997 he took over the management of a task force of the German Research Foundation , which was supposed to clear up the falsification allegations surrounding the German cancer researchers Friedhelm Herrmann and Marion Brach.

In Würzburg, Rapp was one of the initiators of the “BioMedTech Franken cooperation network”, which initiated the establishment of start-up centers in Erlangen, Bayreuth and Würzburg. He also initiated the Rudolf Virchow lecture series at the Medical Faculty of Würzburg, which invites outstanding researchers to Würzburg.

After his retirement, he was appointed Senior Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry in Martinsried, where he headed a research group on the topic of "Cancer Metastasis". After working at the MPI for Biochemistry, Rapp moved to the Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research , where he is one of two heads of a research group.

Awards, prizes and memberships

Web links

Literature by and about Ulf Rapp in the catalog of the German National Library
Press release from the University of Würzburg on the occasion of Rapp's 65th birthday
Profile of Rapp at Biomedexperts ( Memento from April 26, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
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Individual evidence

↑ On the files , article in the ZEIT on the Commission and the resulting conflicts, May 15, 2003
↑ Mention of the former work group von Rapp at the MPI for Biochemistry
↑ Rapp's homepage at the MPI for Heart and Lung Research
^ Announcement about the Max Planck Research Prize of the University of Würzburg
↑ Member entry by Prof. Dr. Ulf R. Rapp (with picture) at the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina , accessed on July 19, 2016.

personal data
SURNAME	Rapp, Ulf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Rapp, Ulf Rüdiger
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German biochemist
DATE OF BIRTH	December 22, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH	Wernigerode

[1] On the files , article in the ZEIT on the Commission and the resulting conflicts, May 15, 2003

[2] Mention of the former work group von Rapp at the MPI for Biochemistry

[3] Rapp's homepage at the MPI for Heart and Lung Research

[4] Announcement about the Max Planck Research Prize of the University of Würzburg

[5] Member entry by Prof. Dr. Ulf R. Rapp (with picture) at the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina , accessed on July 19, 2016.