Reinhard Jahn#
| Membership Number: | 4063 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSIOLOGY & NEUROSCIENCE |
| Elected: | 2015 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.mpibpc.mpg.de/jahn |
Present and Previous Positions
- 1997 - Director and Professor, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Department of Neurobiology, Goettingen, Germany
- 1995 - 1997 Professor of Pharmacology and Cell Biology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA
- 1991 - 1995 Associate Professor of Pharmacology and Cell Biology , Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA
- 1991 - 1997 Assoc. Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA
- 1986 - 1991 Group leader, Max Planck Institute for Psychiatry, Martinsried, Germany
- 1985 - 1986 Assistant Professor , The Rockefeller University, New York, NY, USA
- 1983 - 1985 Postdoctoral Fellow (Laboratory of P. Greengard), The Rockefeller University, New York, NY, USA
Fields of Scholarship
- Membrane traffic
- Exocytosis
- Synaptic transmission
- SNARE proteins
- Membrane fusion
- Neurotransmitter uptake and storage
Honours and Awards
- 2016 Balzan Prize
- 2015 Elected Foreign Associate Member, National Academy of Sciences, USA
- 2014 Heinrich Wieland Prize, Boehringer Ingelheim Foundation
- 2013 Eduard Buchner Prize, Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (GBM)
- 2008 Sir Bernhard Katz Award (with T.C. Südhof), Biophysical Society
- 2006 Ernst-Jung Prize for Medicine, Jung Foundation
- 2000 Gottfried-Wilhelm Leibniz-Prize, German Research Foundation
- 2000 Elected Member, German National Academy of Science (Leopoldina)
- 1998 Elected Member, EMBO
- 1990 Max-Planck Research Prize (with P. de Camilli) , Max Planck Society and Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation
