Klaus Weber#
| Sadly, this member passed away. | |
| Membership Number: | 997 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 1991 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
Klaus Weber passed away August 8, 2016.
Positions Held
- 2004 Emeritus Director, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry
- 1987 Honorary Professor, University of Goettingen, FRG
- 1975 - 2004 Director, Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Goettingen, FRG
- 1972 - 1974 Full Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.
- 1970 - 1972 Associate Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.
- 1967 - 1970 Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.
- 1965 - 1967 Research Fellow in Biology with Dr. J.D. Watson, Harvard University Visiting Research Fellow in Biochemistry with Dr. W. Konigsberg, Yale University
- 1963 - 1965 Assistant in Biochemistry, University of Freiburg
Fields of Scholarship
- Cell biology
- Biochemistry
- Molecular biology
Honours and Awards
- 1975 Elected member of EMBO
- 1976 - 1982 Council of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
- 1981 - 1984 Secretary General of EMBO
- 1984 Ernst Jung Prize for Medicine
- 1992 Elected member of Academia Europaea
- 1997 Otto-Warburg-Medal of the German Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
- 1997 Medical Faculty, University of Ghent, Belgium
- 1998 Carl Zeiss Prize (German Society Cell Biology)
- 2006 Honorary Membership of the German Society for Cell Biology
