Erwin Neher#
| Membership Number: | 593 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSIOLOGY & NEUROSCIENCE |
| Elected: | 1989 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.mpibpc.mpg.de/groups/neher/core.php |
Present and Previous Positions
- Since 1983 Director of the Membrane Biophysics Department at the Max-Planck-Institut für biophysikalische Chemie, Göttingen, Germany
- 1989: Fairchild Scholar, California Institute of Technology; Pasadena, USA
- 1976 - 1982 Research associate at the Max-Planck-Institut für biophysikalische Chemie, Göttingen, W. Germany
- 1975 - 1976 Research Associate as a guest in the laboratory of Dr. Ch.F. Stevens at Yale University, Dept. of Physiology, New Haven, Conn.
- 1972 - 1975 Research associate at the Max-Planck-Institut für biophysikalische Chemie, Dept. "Molekularer Systemaufbau", Göttingen, W. Germany
- 1970 Ph.D. (Physics) Institute of Technology, Munich 1970
Fields of Scholarship
- Neuronal signals
- Calcium as a second messenger
- Synaptic transmission
- Secretion of neurotransmitters and hormones
- Short-term synaptic plasticity
- Image analysis
Honours and Awards
- 1986 Leibniz Prize of the DFG (1986)
- 1991 Nobel Prize for Medicine or Physiology together with B. Sakmann
- 1995 Member of the Order ‘Pour le Mérite‘
- Since 1989 Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences USA
- Since 1991 Member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences
- Sicne 1994 Foreign Member of the Royal Society, London
