Walter Keller (medic, 1938)

Walter Keller (born August 15, 1938 in Landau in the Palatinate ) is a German cell biologist and molecular biologist.

Keller received his doctorate in medicine from the Düsseldorf Medical Academy in 1962. From 1964 to 1966 he was a research assistant in the pathology department and from 1966 to 1968 in the human genetics department of the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg . In 1968 he was at Johns Hopkins University and in 1969/70 he was at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda (Maryland) in the laboratory for virus biology. From 1970 to 1976 he was Senior Staff Investigator at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in the Tumor Viruses group. From 1976 to 1980 he was Associate Professor at the University of Heidelberg and from 1980 to 1987 Head of the Molecular Biology II Department at the DKFZ in Heidelberg (Institute for Cell and Tumor Biology). From 1987 to 2008 he was Professor of Cell Biology at the University of Basel and from 1995 to 1997 Chairman of the Biozentrum.

He deals with the processing of m-RNA and t-RNA precursors, with the preparation and characterization of RNA polymerase II from mammals, with the molecular biology of tumor viruses such as SV 40 and adenovirus 2,

In 1998 he received the Louis Jeantet Prize . In 1989 he became a member of the Academia Europaea and the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO). In 2007 he received the RNA Society's Lifetime Achievement Award.

From 1986 to 1990 he was Associate Editor of Cell and from 1986 to 1988 on the editorial board of the EMBO Journal. From 1995 he was on the editorial board of RNA .

Web links

• Homepage, University of Basel

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kürschner's Scholars Calendar 2009