Ernst-Ludwig Winnacker

Ernst- Ludwig Winnacker ( born July 26, 1941 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German biochemist and science managers.

Scientist

Ernst- Ludwig Winnacker is the son of a chemist and former CEO of Hoechst AG Karl Winnacker. He studied chemistry at the ETH Zurich and received his doctorate at the same university in 1968 with Albert Eschenmoser. He then worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California at Berkeley and at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm working. He became an assistant at the Institute for Genetics, University of Cologne in 1972. In 1977 he became professor of biochemistry at the University of Munich, in 1980 there just full professor. From 1984 to 1997 he was director of the Laboratory for Mokekularbiologie Genforschungszentrum at the University of Munich. His main scientific interests are in the areas of virus -cell interactions, mechanisms of gene expression in higher cells and prion diseases ( including BSE). Since 1988 he is a member of the Leopoldina.

Science Manager

From 1987 to 1993 he was Vice President from 1998 until the end of 2006, President of the German Research Foundation (DFG). From 1984 to 1992 he was a member of the Enquete Commission of the German Bundestag on the opportunities and risks of genetic engineering.

From 1992 to 1998 he was chairman of the association of the Institute TTN ( Technology-Theology - Natural Sciences) at the University of Munich.

From January 2007 to July 2009 he was the first Secretary of the newly created European Research Council ( European Research Council ERC) in Brussels. His " adventures in the Brussels bureaucracy " he described in 2009 in the TIME ( "Please do not so suspicious " ) and in the 2012 book " Europe's research on the Move".

Since 2008, Winnacker is engaged as a pacemaker for the Tom - Wahlig Foundation, which advocates for the research and cure of spastic paraplegia.

The organization of the international Human Frontier Science Program ( HFSP ) chose Winnacker 2009 its Secretary General. From 1 July 2009, he is the successor of the former Secretary-General of the Nobel laureate Torsten Wiesel.

Awards

Publications (selection)

  • Genes to Clones - An Introduction to Gene Technology, VCH Verlagsgesellschaft, Weinheim, 1985
  • The time is ripe. On the issue of stem cell research to the political authorities must confess Color In: Süddeutsche Zeitung, November 23, 2001
  • What school do we want? How long can we afford the scientific illiteracy yet? In: Süddeutsche Zeitung, March 9, 2002
  • The genome - possibilities and limitations of genetic research ( ext 3 and akt ed. . ) Eichborn, Frankfurt am Main, 2002
  • European research on the move - adventures in the Brussels bureaucracy, Berlin University Press, Berlin, 2012
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