Meet the Laureates

Selected Heinrich Wieland Prize Laureates were available for students and junior scientists in a round table format during the lunch break of the symposium.

Below you will find short profiles of the scientists who had kindly agreed to take part in this session.

Professor Nenad Ban, PhD

Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, Switzerland

Heinrich Wieland Prize 2010 for defining the molecular structures of fatty acid synthases in fungi and mammals

Professor Carolyn Bertozzi, PhD

Professor of Chemistry and of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California at Berkeley, USA

Heinrich Wieland Prize for pioneering achievements in chemical biology, in particular the innovative use of bioorthogonal chemistry

Professor Dr Reinhard Jahn

Director at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen, Germany

Heinrich Wieland Prize 2012 for paradigmatic studies on membrane fusion, synaptic vesicles and neurotransmitter release

Read more … Professor Dr Reinhard Jahn

Professor Steven Ley, PhD

Director of the Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, UK

Heinrich Wieland Prize 2009 for outstanding achievements in the synthesis of key natural products

Professor James Rothman, PhD

Department of Biomedical Sciences and Chair Department of Cell Biology at Yale University, MA, USA

Heinrich Wieland Prize 1990 for ground-breaking work on the enzymology of intracellular membrane fusion

Prof Dr Petra Schwille

Director, Department of Cellular and Molecular Biophysics, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Martinsried, Germany

Member of the scientific Board of Trustees of the Heinrich Wieland Prize

Read more … Professor Dr Petra Schwille

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