Anthony A. Hyman

Anthony Hyman ( born May 27, 1962 in Haifa ) is a British cell biologist. He is since 1999 one of the directors of the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics in Dresden and the Leibniz Prize 2011.

Life

Hyman studied zoology at University College, University of London, where he completed his bachelor's degree in 1984 from. From 1985 to 1987 he worked as part of his PhD at King's College, Cambridge, in the group of John White on the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans. This worm was established by the later Nobel laureate Sydney Brenner as a model organism and investigated. Burner was head of the molecular biology laboratory of the MRC, at the Hyman doctorate on developmental processes during cell division in C. elegans embryo since 1979. Following his graduation in 1988 Hyman worked as a postdoctoral fellow with Tim Mitchison at the University of California at San Francisco until he joined in 1993 as a group leader at the EMBL in Heidelberg. In San Francisco, as in Heidelberg, he dealt with the role of microtubules in cell division, which is one of his research areas until today.

Since 1999, Hyman worked as a Director at the MPI -CBG in Dresden. In 2007 he was admitted as a "Fellow" (member) of the Royal Society. For his researches on the microtubule cytoskeleton Hyman 2011 received one of the 2.5 million euros doped Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize.

Others commitment

Hyman committed at the political level since 2009 as a member of the Aliens Advisory Board of the City of Dresden.