Rudi Balling
Rudi Balling ( born October 17, 1953 in Daun- Pützborn ) is a German geneticist. He is a founding director of the Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine at the University of Luxembourg.
Life and work
After graduation in 1972 at the State High School Neusprachliches down and the military service, Rudi Balling studied 1974-1980 Nutritional Sciences at the Friedrich- Wilhelms-Universität Bonn. During this time he was also a Fulbright Scholar at Washington State University in Pullman, United States. Following Rudi Balling doctorate troph Henning Beier at the RWTH Aachen and the NIEHS (NIH ) to Dr..
From 1984 to 1986 conducted research at the Samuel Lunenfeld Rudi Balling Research Institute of Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto (Canada) Janet Rossant in one of the world's leading laboratories in the field of developmental biology at Imprintingmechanismen. He then moved to the laboratory of Peter Gruss at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen. There he cleared crucial mechanisms in the field of morphogenesis.
1991 Habilitation Rudi Balling and became head of a Max Planck research group in the field of Davor Solter of the Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology in Freiburg im Breisgau. From 1993 to 2000 he was director of the Institute of Mammalian Genetics at the GSF National Research Center for Environment and Health ( now Helmholtz Zentrum München ). In 1994 he participated in an extraordinary professorship at the RWTH Aachen, followed by a call to the Department of Developmental Genetics ( C4 ) of the Technical University of Munich 1998.
From 2001 to 2009, Rudi Balling, Scientific Director of the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI ) in Braunschweig and Honorary Professor at the TU Braunschweig. Under his leadership, the focus of the HZI was placed on infection research, what was visible through a renaming of the Research Centre for Biotechnology (GBF ) in HZI and externally.
Prior to his appointment as founding director of the Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine, in September 2009, Balling concentrated more on the exploration of systems biological processes. In close cooperation with the Institute for Systems Biology in Seattle, USA, Balling is working intensively on the further development of biomedical excellence in Luxembourg.
Around 125 of his works are listed in the index Citation. These were cited over 5000 times. Rudi Balling Hirsch index is 39
He is married and has two children.
Honors and Awards
- Adjunct Professor, National Institute of Genetics, Mishima, Japan ( 2007)
- Guest Professor, College of Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China ( 2006)
- Member of the Berlin -Brandenburg Academy of Sciences ( 2002)
- Honorary Member of the Japanese Society of Inherited Metabolic Disease (1999)
- Honorary Member of the American Association of Anatomists (1999)
- Frederick William Price of the RWTH Aachen (1992 )
- DFG training grant, Mount Sinai Research Institute, Toronto, Canada (1984 - 1986)
- DAAD PhD scholarship, NIEHS (NIH ), NC, USA (1981 - 1982)
- Fulbright scholarship and direct exchange scholarship from the Friedrich- Wilhelms- University Bonn and Washington State University, Pullman, USA (1978-1979)
Membership in scientific societies
- President of the Association of Biology, Life Sciences and Biomedicine in Germany ( VBIO, since 2007)
- President of the association of life science and biomedical professional societies ( vbbm, 2003-2007)
- President of the German Genetics Society ( GfG, 2002-2004)
- President of the International Mammalian Genome Society ( IMGS, 2001-2002 )
Rudi Balling is a member of several Senate committees and advisory boards.