Rüdiger Klein

Rüdiger Klein ( born March 24, 1958 in Nickenich) is Director of the Department " molecules - signals - Development" at the Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology.

Life and work

Klein studied biology at the Universities of Marburg and Tübingen and at Juniata College (USA ). He was Doctorate at the University of Tübingen. As a postdoctoral fellow he worked at the Frederick Cancer Research and Development Center ( USA) and at Bristol -Myers Squibb Pharmaceutical Research Institute (USA). Then he led a research group at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory ( EMBL) in Heidelberg, before being appointed in 2001 to the scientific member and director at the Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology.

Rüdiger Klein's work is concerned with the molecular mechanisms that allow the exchange of information between nerve cells.

Rüdiger Klein succeeded as young scientists the discovery of receptors ( TRK ) of certain nerve growth factor (NGF ). ( Klein et al., Cell 1991a, b ) Furthermore, it was demonstrated that certain neurotransmitters ( ephrins ) directing the axons of nerve cells by rejection. ( Henke Meyer et al, Cell 1996;. Orioli et al, EMBO Journal 1996;. . Brückner et al, Science 1997) He made the discovery that ephrins regulate not only the development of the nervous system but also of the lymphatic vessels and blood vessels. (. Adams et al, Genes Dev 1999, Mäkinen et al Genes Dev 2005. )

In 2005 he received the Hansen Family Award.