Dietmar Vestweber#
| Membership Number: | 1863 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 1998 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.mpg.de/443960/molekulare_biomedizin_wissM https://www.uni-muenster.de/forschungaz/person/13004?lang=en |
Present and Previous Positions
- since 2001 Founding Director, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine, Münster
- 1999 - 2001 Director, Max Planck Institute for Physiological and Clinical Research, Bad Nauheim
- since 1994 Full Professor (C4) of Cell Biology, Medical Faculty WWU
- 1994 - 2006 Director, Institute for Cell Biology at the Centre for Molecular Biology of Inflammation (ZMBE), University of Münster (WWU)
- 1990 - 1994 Head of an Independent Research Group, Hans-Spemann-Laboratory at the Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology, Freiburg
- 1987 - 1989 Postdoctoral Fellow with Prof. G. Schatz Biocentre, Department of Biochemistry, University of Basel, Switzerland
- 1986 Postdoctoral Fellow with R. Kemler, Friedrich Miescher Laboratory, Max Planck Society, Tübingen
Fields of Scholarship
- Leukocyte trafficking in immune surveillance and inflammation
- Molecular mechanisms that control the integrity of endothelial cell contacts and the formation of blood vessel
Honours and Awards
- 2009 Elected Member of European Molecular Biology Organisation (EMBO)
- 2002 Elected Member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
- 1998 Elected Member of the Academia Europaea
- 1998 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize of the DFG
- 1996 Award for Basic Medical Research, SmithKline Beecham Foundation
- 1996 Award of the Berlin-Brandenburgische Academy of Science
- 1993 Research Award of the State of Baden-Württemberg
- 1985 Otto-Hahn-Medal of the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
