Ute Groeschel-Stewart

Ute Gröschel-Stewart (* 1932 in Würzburg ; † June 28, 2017 ) was a German biologist and professor at the Technical University of Darmstadt .

Live and act

Ute Gröschel was born in 1932 as the daughter of a doctor. She spent her childhood in Cologne and passed her Abitur in 1950 in Nördlingen .

Then she began a study of biology . She spent the first year of this biology degree in the United States as part of the Fulbright program . She was one of the first group of exchange students. After she returned to Germany , she attended a doctoral degree in biology in Tübingen . During her final year of study she went to Munich with her PhD supervisor Adolf Butenandt ; There doctorate it 1957. Their thesis she wrote about Insektenverpuppung .

Then Gröschel-Stewart moved to the USA for three years to work as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California at Berkeley , as it was impossible for a woman to get a job in the department of biology in Germany at that time. In the USA she met her future husband, an American doctor. They married in 1959. With him she returned to Germany and in 1960 began to work as an assistant at the Medical Faculty of the University of Würzburg .

Their son was born in 1965. Four years later she completed her habilitation at the University of Würzburg. Her habilitation thesis, Comparative Investigations on Contractile Proteins from Smooth and Striated Muscles , dealt with muscle proteins .

In 1969 she became a professor at the Technical University of Darmstadt . There she taught biology until her retirement in 1997. She then went to London for a volunteer research year to join a research group. There she conducted research at adenosine triphosphate - receptors .

Research priorities

Her interest was in the medical aspect of biology; she researched the biochemistry and immunology of contractile proteins such as actin and myosin . She also researched receptors and regulators of the muscles .

Awards

In 1979 she was awarded the Adolf Fick Prize for her research on muscle proteins . So far, she is the only woman to have received this award. Gröschel-Stewart was also awarded the Erasmus Kittler Prize in 1998. She received this for her commitment to women at universities . She was nominated for this award by the non-academic staff at TU Darmstadt.

Fonts (selection)

• Comparative studies on contractile proteins from smooth and striated muscles. sn, Würzburg 1969, OCLC 74088586 (Würzburg, University, habilitation paper, dated June 30, 1969).
• Biochemistry and immunochemistry of cytoplasmic filamentous structures. In: European Journal of Cancer . Vol. 16, No. 1, 1980, pp. 2-5, doi : 10.1016 / 0014-2964 (80) 90094-8 .
• Immunochemistry of Cytoplasmic Contractile Proteins. In: International Review of Cytology. Vol. 65, 1980, ISSN  0074-7696 , pp. 193-254, doi: 10.1016 / S0074-7696 (08) 61961-0 .
• with Ernst Hempelmann, R. Heiner Schirmer , Gerhard Fritsch, Erika Hundt: Studies on glutathione reductase and methemoglobin from human erythrocytes parasitized with Plasmodium falciparum. In: Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology. Vol. 23, No. 1, 1987, doi : 10.1016 / 0166-6851 (87) 90182-4 .
• with Georg H. Schmid and Alfons Radunz: Immunology and its application in biology. 10 tables. G. Thieme, Stuttgart et al. 1993, ISBN 3-13-771501-6 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Herta Westerman, Gabriele Merziger: Issue 40 (3/1999) - I always wanted to research. MATHILDE in conversation with the biologist Prof. Dr. Ute Stewart. In: mathilde-frauenzeitung.de. Mathilde - The non-commercial women's magazine from Darmstadt , accessed on August 19, 2018 . 
2. ↑ Herta Westerman, Gabriele Merziger: Issue 40 (3/1999) - I always wanted to research. MATHILDE in conversation with the biologist Prof. Dr. Ute Stewart. In: mathilde-frauenzeitung.de. Mathilde - The non-commercial women's magazine from Darmstadt , accessed on August 29, 2015 .