Anthony A. Hyman#
| Membership Number: | 3924 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CELL & DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2014 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | http://hymanlab.mpi-cbg.de/hyman_lab |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2010 - 2013 Managing Director, MPI-CBG
- 1999 - present Director, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics
- 1993 - 1999 Group Leader: EMBL, Heidelberg
- 1988 - 1992 Postdoctoral Research: UCSF, CA Mentor Tim Mitchison
- 1985 - 1987 PhD at the LMB, MRC, Cambridge Mentor John White
Fields of Scholarship
- Cell division
- Mitosis
- Polarity
- Genomics
- Non-membrane bound cellular compartments
Honours and Awards
- 2000 EMBO member
- 2002 Honorary Professor TUD Dresden
- 2003 EMBO Gold Medal
- 2007 Elected fellow of the Royal Society
- 2011 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize
- 2017 Schleiden Medal from the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
- 2020 NOMIS Distinguished Scientist Award by the NOMIS Foundation
- 2020 Member of the National Academy of Sciences in April 2020
- 2021 Wiley Prize in Biomedical Sciences for his work on biomolecular condensates
- 2021 HFSP Nakasone Award (together with Clifford Brangwynne)
- 2021 Member, German National Academy of Sciences (Leopoldina)
- 2022 Körber European Science Prize
- 2023 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences "for discovering a fundamental mechanism of cellular organization mediated by phase separation of proteins and RNA into membraneless liquid droplets"
