Alfred Wittinghofer#
| Membership Number: | 2124 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2001 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.mpi-dortmund.mpg.de/37280/Emeritusgruppe |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2010 Emeritus Group at the Max-Planck-Institute of Molecular Physiology, Dortmund, Germany
- 1993 - 2009 Director of the Department 'Structural Biology' at the Max-Planck-Institute of Molecular Physiology, Dortmund, Germany
- 1980 Group leader, Max-Planck-Institute for Medical Research, Heidelberg, Germany
- 1974 Scientific assistant, Max-Planck-Institute for Medical Research, Heidelberg, Germany
- 1971-1973 Postdoctoral fellow, Univeresity of North Carolina
- 1971 Ph.D. Chemistry, German Wool Research Institute in Aachen
Fields of Scholarship
- Structural biochemistry
- GTP-binding proteins
- Signal transduction
- GTPase Mechanisms
Honours and Awards
- Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine 2001
- Richard-Kuhn-Medal of the Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker (GDCh), 2002
- Deutscher Krebspreis 2003 der Deutschen Krebsgesellschaft e.V.
- Otto-Warburg-Medal of the GBM, 2003
