Markus Ralser#
| Membership Number: | 7355 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2025 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | https://biochemie.charite.de/en/ |
| ORCID: | 0000-0001-9535-7413 |
| Publication Link: | https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=1AruWzMAAAAJ&hl=en |
Present and Previous Positions
- Since 2023 Fellow, The Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin
- Since 2022 Fellow, Nuffield Dept. of Medicine, The Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford
- Since 2018 UK Einstein Professor (W3) and Head, Inst. of Biochemistry (Co-director, Dept. of Biochemistry), Charité, Berlin, Germany
- 2013 - 2022 Research Group Lead, Molecular Biology of Metabolism Laboratory, The Francis Crick Institute, London, UK
- 2011 - 2018 Research Group Lead, Wellcome Beit Fellow, Dept. of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, UK
- 2007 - 2011 Junior Group Leader Dept. Of Vertebrate Genomics, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin, Germany
- 2007 Postdoc, Clinical Metabolomics (Prof. Dr. C Jacobs), Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- 2006 - 2007 Postdoc, Dept. of. Vertebrate Genomics (Prof. Dr. H. Lehrach), Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin, Germany
Fields of Scholarship
- Metabolic oxidative
- Biochemistry
- Proteomics
- Central carbon and amino acid metabolism
- Stress response
- Carbohydrate metabolism
- Cellular metabolic network
- Systems biology
Honours and Awards
- 2021 Elected member, European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO), Germany
- 2020 EMBO Gold Medal, European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO), Germany
- 2021 - 2027 ERC Synergy Grant “Fungal Tolerance” (European Research Council), EU
- 2019 Starling Medal, Society of Endocrinology, UK
- 2018 The Colworth Medal, Biochemical Society, UK
- 2018 Einstein Professorship, Einstein Foundation Berlin, Germany
- 2017 - 2023 Investigator Award in the Life Sciences, Wellcome Trust, UK
- 2014 Wissenschaftspreis (Science Award), South Tyrol, Italy
- 2012 - 2014 Young Investigator, European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO), Germany
- 2011 - 2017 Wellcome-Beit Fellowship, Wellcome Trust, UK
- 2011 - 2016 ERC Starting Grant “Metabolic Regulators”, (European Research Council), EU
- 2011 - 2016 Research Career Development Fellowship, Wellcome Trust, UK
- 2011 Wellcome Beit Prize, Wellcome Trust, UK
- 2008 BioMed Central Research Award “Biology“, BioMed Central, USA
