Ralf Erdmann#
| Membership Number: | 5485 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2020 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/biochem/system |
| ORCID: | 0000-0001-8380-0342 |
Present and Previous Positions
- Since 2009 Full Professor (W3) Department of Systems Biochemistry, Medical Faculty of the Ruhr University Bochum
- Since 2002 Acting Director Institute of Biochemistry and Pathobiochemistry, Medical Faculty of the Ruhr University Bochum
- 2002 - 2009 Full Professor (C4) Department of System Biochemistry, Medical Faculty of the Ruhr University Bochum
- 1998 - 2002 Associate Professor (C3) Institute for Biochemistry, Free University of Berlin
- 1995 - 1998 Research group leader (C1) Institute for Physiological Chemistry, Ruhr University Bochum
- 1991 - 1995 Postdoctoral fellow with Prof. Dr. Günter Blobel, HHMI, The Rockefeller University New York, USA
- 1989 - 1991 Postdoctoral fellow with Prof. Dr. Dr. W.-H. Kunau, Institute for Physiological Chemistry, Ruhr University Bochum
Fields of Scholarship
- Molecular basis of peroxisomal diseases
- Biogenesis and function of peroxisomes
- Topogenesis of peroxisomal proteins
- Characterization of glycosomes
- Glycosome biogenesis inhibitors
- New therapies against Sleeping sickness, Leishmaniasis and Chagas Disease
Honours and Awards
- 2020 Erwin Schrödinger Award
- 1991 Feodor Lynen Fellowship of the Alexander von Humboldt foundation
- 1989 Annual award of the “Scientific Society of the University of Bochum”
- 1988 EMBO Short Term Fellowship
- 1987 FEBS Short Term Fellowship
- Since 2012 Chairman of the DFG research unit (Structure and function of the peroxisomal translocon (PerTrans)
- Since 2015 Elected Speaker of the study group „Molecular Cell Biology“ German Soc. for Biochem. and Mol. Biol. (GBM)
- 2008 - 2012 and 2016 - 2020 Elected Member of the Reviewing Board 201 ‘Biophysics, Biochemistry, and Bioinformatics’ of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
- 2008 - 2016 Vice-Chairman of the SFB642 (GTP- and ATP-dependent Membrane Processes)
- 1999 - 2001 Head of the Advisory Board of the Celon GmbH, Berlin
