Ernst-Ludwig Winnacker#
| Membership Number: | 461 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 1989 |
| Main Country of Residence: | FRANCE |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.dfg.de/en/dfg_profile/history/presidents/ernst_ludwig_winnacker |
Present and Previous Positions
- Since 2009 Secretary General, Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP), Strasbourg
- 2007 - 2009 First Secretary General of the European Research Council (ERC), Brussels
- 1998 - 2006 President of the German Research Foundation
- 1987 - 1993 Vice President of the German Research Foundation
- 1984 - 1997 Director of the Laboratory of Molecular Biology, University of Munich Gene Center
- Since 1980 Full Professor, Institute of Biochemistry, University of Munich
- 1977 - 1980 Associate Professor, Institute of Biochemistry, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
- 1972 - 1977 Assistant, then Visiting Professor for the German Research Foundation (DFG) at the Institute for Genetics, University of Cologne
- 1968 - 1972 Postdoctorates at the University of California, Berkeley and the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm
- 1968 Doctorate
Fields of Scholarship
- Virus/cell interaction
- Mechanisms of gene expression in higher cells
- Prion diseases
Honours and Awards
- Awards
- 1992 Bavarian Order of Merit
- 1994 Arthur Burckhardt Prize
- 1996 Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
- 1999 Honorary doctorate of the University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, Austria
- 1999 Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art
- 1999 Member of the Inventors gallery of the German Patent and Trade Mark Office
- 1999 Zimmermann Prize for Cancer Research
- 2006 Commander’s Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
- 2006 Chevalier de la Legion d’Honneur
- 2007 Commanders’s Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland
- 2009 International Science and Technology Cooperation Award of the People’s Republic of China
- 2009 Order of the Rising Sun, Gold and Silver Star of Japan
- 2010 Grand Cross with Star (Knight Commander's Cross) of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
- 2011 Robert Koch Gold Medal
- Memberships
- 1984 - 1987 Expert Member of the Enquete Commission of the German Parliament
- 1988 Member of the Scientific-Technical Advisory Council of the Bavarian State Government
- 1988 Member of the Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina
- 1989 Member of the Academia Europaea
- 1989 Member of the International Science Committee of the National Academy of Science in Beijing, China
- 1993 Member of the North Rhine-Westphalia Academy for Sciences and Arts
- 1994 External Vice President of the Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina in Halle
- 1997 Member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences
- 1998 Member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities
- Member of the Institute of Medicine - National Academy of Science, Washington
- 2000 - 2004 Member of the European Life Science Group of EU Commissioner Philipe Busquin
- 2000 - 2003 Member of the German National Ethics Board
