Hans Robert Schöler
Hans Robert Scholer ( born January 30, 1953 in Toronto, Canada) is a molecular biologist and stem cell researcher. He is a director at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine in Münster.
Life and work
Hans Scholer came to Germany in 1960 and grew up in Paderborn, Munich and Heidelberg. After studying biology at the University of Heidelberg Schölermann research at the Center for Molecular Biology Heidelberg ( ZMBH). These results have led to his PhD in 1985 at the University of Heidelberg.
After working as a research group leader for Boehringer Mannheim at the Research Tutzing and as a research assistant at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen, took Scholer 1991, he led a research group at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory ( EMBL) in Heidelberg. In the period of his stay in Göttingen, the discovery of the most important stem cell gene Oct- 4, each cell can be reprogrammed into a stem cell falls (Nobel Prize in Physiology, 2012 S. Yamanaka ). In 1994 he completed his habilitation at the Faculty of Biology at the Ruprecht -Karls- University of Heidelberg.
1999 Hans Scholer left the EMBL to, United States to take over the Chair of Reproductive Physiology at the School of Veterinary Medicine 'of the University of Pennsylvania. He was also a director of, Center of Animal Transgenesis and Germ Cell Research '. From 2000 to 2004 he was the owner of the Marion Dilley and David George Jones' Chair in Reproductive Medicine.
Since 2004, Hans Scholer Director of the Department of Cell and Developmental Biology at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine, Münster. He is Professor of the Medical Faculty of the Westfälische Wilhelms -Universität Münster and beyond, an associate professor at the University of Pennsylvania and the Hannover Medical School.
A developmental biologist Hans Schöler at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine in Münster have published research results in the journal Nature. They have succeeded with the help of a single gene to transform first nerve cells of people in so-called " all-rounder " in each cell and thus can develop any type of fabric itself. Scholer classifies the quality of stem cells obtained in this way as so high that you could probably do without as future on the import of embryonic stem cells as well. In North Rhine -Westphalia his research project " CARE " was in reference to the budget situation as " not eligible " viewed.
Research
His main areas of research activity are the molecular biology of germ line cells ( pluripotent cells and germ cells); transcriptional regulation of genes in the germline of mammals, decryption of the molecular sequence of reprogramming of somatic cells after induction of transcription factors, nuclear transfer to oocytes or fusion with pluripotent cells.
About 150 of his publications are listed in the index Citation. These have been cited over 6,000 times. His Hirsch index is 54 (as of October 2011).
Awards and Affiliations
- 2004: Member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
- 2005: Member of the North Rhine- Westphalian Academy of Sciences
- 2008: Robert Koch Prize, together with Irving L. Weissman and Shin'ya Yamanaka
- 2010: Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology ( UNIST ) opened the " Hans Scholer Stem Cell Research Center "
- 2010: Berlin- Brandenburg Academy of Sciences, life sciences, medical class
- 2011: Kazemi Prize
- 2011: Emil-von -Behring - lecture
- 2011: Max Delbrück Medal