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Professor Erwin Neher |
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Max-Planck-Institut für biophysikalische Chemie Am Fassberg 11 37077 Göttingen Germany Tel. + 49 – 551 – 201 1630 Fax. + 49 – 551 – 201 1688 e-mail: eneher@gwdg.de |
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Born (Germany). Currently Director of the Membrane Biophysics Department, Max-Planck-Insitut für Biophysikalische Chemie in Göttingen. Present research interests include molecular and cellular mechanisms of Ca++ signalling, neurotransmitter release and synaptic plasticity. Received the Nobel Prize in 1991 in Physiology or Medicine (together with Bert Sakmann) for his development of the tight-seal technique for recording ion channel activity. Member of Academia Europaea, Foreign Associate Member of the National Academy of Sciences (USA) and The Royal Society (UK). Chairman of the Scientific Steering Committee of the Red Sea Program since 1994, an international research programme on marine biology of the Red Sea with additional specific aim to promote scientific collaboration in a politically difficult setting.
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