Stefan Jentsch#
| Sadly, this member passed away. | |
| Membership Number: | 2918 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CELL & DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2011 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.biochem.mpg.de/jentsch |
Stefan Jentsch passed away October 29, 2016.
Positions Held
- Director of Department of Molecular Cell Biology, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Martinsried/München, Germany
- 2003,2011 Managing Director, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Martinsried/München, Germany
- 2009-2011, 2001-2004 Member of the Managing Board of Directors, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Martinsried/München, Germany
- 2001 Honorary Professor, Ludwig Maximilians University, München, Germany
- 1998 Director of Department of Molecular Cell Biology, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Martinsried/München, Germany
- 1993-1998 Professor of Cell Biology, ZMBH, Center of Molecular Biology, Heidelberg University, Germany
- 1988-1993 Max Planck Research Group Leader, Friedrich Miescher Laboratory of the Max Planck Society, Tübingen, Germany
- 1985-1988 Postdoctoral Fellow/Associate, Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge MA, USA
- 1983-1985 Research Assistant, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Genetics, Berlin, Germany
- 1979-1983 Graduate Student, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Genetics, Berlin, Germany
- 1979 Diploma Student of Biology, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Genetics, Berlin, Germany
Fields of Scholarship
- Molecular biology
- DNA repair
- Genome stability
- Chromatin biology
- Protein sorting
- Gene expression
- Signal transduction
Honours and Awards
- 2013 Elected AAAS Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
- 2011 Member of Academia Europaea
- 2011 Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine, Fondation Louis-Jeantet
- 2006 Honorary Professorship of Fudan University, Shanghai, China (together with Lewis Cantley, Tim Hunt, Robert Roeder, Koichi Tanaka)
- 2003 Max-Planck Research Award of the Humboldt Society and the Max Planck Society
- 2001 Appointment to Honorary Professor of Biology at Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich, Germany
- 2000-2008 Elected member of the Study Section of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
- Member of the Editorial Board of Molecular Cell
- Member of the Editorial Board of Journal of Molecular Cell Biology (JMCB)
- 1998 Member of the German Academy of Sciences, Leopoldina
- 1996 Otto Bayer Award Otto Bayer Foundation
- 1995 Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization, EMBO
- 1993 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
- 1992 Otto Klung Prize for Chemistry, Otto Klung Foundation (now called Klung Wilhelmy Prize)
