Walter Neupert#
| Sadly, this member passed away. | |
| Membership Number: | 872 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 1990 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
Walter Neupert passed away June 22, 2019.
Positions Held
- Since 2008 Max Planck Fellow, Max-Planck-Institute of Biochemistry, Martinsried/Munich
- 1983 - 2010 Professor and Chair, Adolf-Butenandt-Institute of Physiological Chemistry, Molecular Biology, Biochemistry and Cell Biology, University of Munich
- 1979 - 1983 Professor, Institute of Biochemistry, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
- 1977 - 1979 Associate Professor, Institute of Biochemistry, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
- 1972 - 1977 Privatdozent, Institute of Physiological Chemistry, University of Munich
- 1969 - 1972 Assistant Professor, Institute of Physiological Chemistry, University of Munich
Fields of Scholarship
- Structure and function of membrane proteins
- Mitochondrial genomics and proteomics
- Mitochondrial diseases
- Intracellular protein traffic
- Motility and inheritance of mitochondria
- Folding and assembly of proteins
- Morphology, fusion and fission of mitochondria
- ATP-dependent proteases in mitochondria
- Molecular chaperones
- Structure and biogenesis of cell organelles, in particular of mitochondria
Honours and Awards
- 1991 Ferdinand-Springer Lecturer FEBS
- 1992 Bernard Axelrod Lecturership in Biochemistry
- 1993 Heinrich-Wieland-Prize
- 1996 Feldberg-Foundation Prize
- 1997 E.C. Slater Lecturer
- 1998 Gairdner-Foundation Prize
- 1999 Schleiden-Medal of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
- 2000 Otto Warburg-Medal of the German Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
- 2000 E.B. Wilson Award of the American Society for Cell Biology
- 2000 Bundesverdienstkreuz (Federal Cross of Merit) 1. Cl. of the Federal Republic of Germany
- 2003 Bayerischer Verdienstorden (Bavarian Cross of Merit) of the Government of Bavaria
- 2003 Felix-Wankel-Animal Protection Prize
- 2007 Fawcett Lecture, Harvard University
- 2008 Bayerischer Maximiliansorden für Wissenschaft und Kunst
- 2010 Otto-Warburg-Lecture, University of Bayreuth
- Member of the Academia Europaea
- Member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences
- Member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
- 1996 Corresponding Member of the Nordrhein-Westfälische Academy of Sciences
- 1999 Foreign Member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 2005 Corresponding Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
- Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
- 1996 - 1998 Member of the EMBO Council
- 2003 Member of the Elected Member of the American Society for Microbiology
- 1997 - 2000 Chairman of the European Molecular Biology Council
- 1996 - 2002 Member of the Senate and Council of the German Research Society (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
