Eduard C. Hurt#
| Membership Number: | 2453 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2007 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.uni-heidelberg.de/zentral/bzh/hurt/groupleader.html |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2003-2005 Director of the Heidelberg University Biochemistry Center (BZH)
- since 1995 Full Professor (C4) at Heidelberg University
- 1987-1994 Group Leader at the EMBL Heidelberg in the Cell Biology Program
- 1984-1986 Postdoc at the Biocenter, University of Basel, Switzerland
- 1980-1983 PhD studies at the University of Regensburg
Fields of Scholarship
- Nuclear pore complex
- Nucleocytoplasmic transport
- Transcription-coupled mRNA export
- Ribosome biogenesis and export nuclear envelope organization
- Nucleolus, sumoylation
- Ubiquination, transcription
- Chromatin organization/modification
- Membrane biogenesis
Honours and Awards
- 2007 Member of the Academia Europaea
- 2007 Feldberg Prize
- 2003 Member of Leopoldina
- 2001 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize
- 1984 Kulturpreis Ostbayern (PhD award)
