!! Alfred Wittinghofer - Curriculum Vitae \\ *born in Goch, Kreis Kleve, Germany, 23.5.1943 *son of Josef and Else Wittinghofer *married to Uschi Wittinghofer, father of two sons, Pan and Henk *Easter 1963: Abitur at the Friedrich-Spee-Gymnasium Geldern *1962-1968: Study of Chemistry at the Technische Hochschule Aachen, Germany *June 1968: Diploma *Diploma work and Doctoral thesis at the German Wool Research Institute in Aachen, subject: total chemical synthesis of insulin *March 1971: Ph.D *1971-1973: postdoctoral fellow with Prof. R.G. Hiskey at the University of North Carolina, subject: modification of proteins *Since 1974 scientific assistant at the Max-Planck-Institut für medizinische Forschung, Heidelberg, Germany *Since 1980 head of an own research group: Studies on structure/function of EF-Tu, adenylate kinase, myosin heavy chain and the oncogene product Ras, biology of the Ras gene, interaction of Ras with regulators and effectors, studies on Ran regulated nuclear transport *1992: Habilitation, University Heidelberg, Germany. Habilitation for Biochemistry at the Faculty of Medicine, University Heidelberg *1993 – June 2009 Director of the Department ‘Structural Biology’ at the Max-Planck-Institute of Molecular Physiology, Dortmund, Germany General subject: GTP-binding proteins in cell biology *Honorarprofessor for Biochemistry at the Faculty of Chemistry Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany *Since July 2009 Emeritus Group at the Max-Planck-Institute of Molecular Physiology, Dortmund, Germany \\ __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 \\ __Lectures__ \\ *Nathan O. Kaplan Memorial Lecture, University of California, San Diego, 1997 *Felix Hoppe-Seyler Lecturer 1998 *Rudolf Virchow-Lecture, Medizinische Fakultät der Universität Würzburg, 2002 *Otto-Warburg-Chemie Lecture, Otto-Warburg-Chemie-Foundation, University Bayreuth, 2004 *Keynote lecture FASEB Summer Research Conference: Regulation and Function small GTPases, Saxton River 2008 *Director Lecture, Sloan Kettering Comprehensive Cancer Center New York, 2008 *NIH Director’s Lecture, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 2009 *Keynote lecture: Conference Jacques-Monod, Regulation and Function of small GTPaases, Aussois 2009 *Keynote Lecture Eurotox 2009, Dresden \\ __Honours__ \\ *EMBO Member *Member of the Academia Europaea *Senator Section Biochemistry/Biophysik of the Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina *Member of the Nordrhein-Westfälische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Class for Naturwissenschaften und Medizin *Honorary Member of the Japanese Biochemical Society *Fellow of the European Academy of Cancer Sciences, since 2009