Wolfgang Höhne

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Wolfgang Höhne (born  July 11, 1948 in Freiberg ) is a German biochemist .

After graduating from high school , which he passed in Potsdam-Babelsberg in 1966, he began studying chemistry at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena in the same year . In 1969 he moved to the Humboldt University in Berlin , where he continued his studies in biochemistry and graduated in 1971. A year later he did his doctorate at Humboldt University with a dissertation based on three specialist articles on the reaction mechanism of pyrophosphatase from baker's yeast , which he submitted as a joint project together with the biochemist Tom Rapoport, who has been working at Harvard University since 1995 .

After receiving his doctorate, Wolfgang Höhne worked as a research assistant until 1976 and then as head of the enzymology research group at the Institute for Biochemistry in the Medicine Department at Humboldt University. In 1979 he was charged with a thesis on the role of metal ions in the structure and function of enzymes habilitation and in the same year a senior assistant. Five years later he was at the Humboldt University for university lecturers of Physiological and Biological Chemistry and 1990 Head of protein structure research appointed at the Institute of Biochemistry at which it has a 1994 call received a professorship in biochemistry.

Wolfgang Höhne's research focuses on structural analysis and the modeling of proteins as well as the interactions between antibodies and antigens . From 1994 to 2004 he was the spokesman for the graduate school "Model studies on the structure, properties and recognition of biological molecules at the atomic level" at the Humboldt University .

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  • Höhne, Wolfgang. Biographical information in: Bernd Sösemann (Ed.): Berliner Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft: Jahrbuch 1996. Springer-Verlag, Berlin 1997, p. 76

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SURNAME Höhne, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German biochemist and professor at the Humboldt University in Berlin
DATE OF BIRTH July 11, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Freiberg