CURRICULUM VITAE

CURRICULUM VITAE
PERSONAL INFORMATION
Name:
Address
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Address
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Matthias W. Hentze (Prof. Dr. med.)
Directors’ Research Unit, EMBL, Meyerhofstrasse 1,
D-69117 Heidelberg, Germany
Phone: +49-6221-387 909, FAX: +49-6221-387 144
e-mail: [email protected]
Jettaweg 4/3, D-69118 Heidelberg, Germany
Phone: +49-6221-618 118
Born:
January 25, 1960 in Wiedenbrück, Germany
Marital Status:
Married, three children
Citizenship:
German
U.S. SSN:
219-08-6525
EDUCATION
1978 - 1981
Medizinische Fakultät, Westfälische-Wilhelms-Univ. Münster, Germany
1981 - 1982
Southampton Medical School, Great Britain
1982 - 1983
Medizinische Fakultät and Physiologisch-Chemisches Institut,
Westfälische-Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Germany
1983 - 1984
Glasgow Medical School, Cambridge Medical School and
Oxford Medical School, Great Britain
1984
3. Ärztl. Prüfung and " Approbation als Arzt"
Doctoral Thesis (M.D.)
1984
Physiologisch-Chemisches Institut, Westfälische-Wilhelms-Universität Münster,
Germany, (Prof. K. von Figura),
"Influence of amino acid analogs on maturation, transport and stability of
cathepsin D in human skin fibroblasts”
Habilitation
1990
Fakultät für Theoretische Medizin der Ruprecht-Karls-Universität
Heidelberg für das Fach "Medizinische Molekularbiologie"
PROFESSIONAL
07/13 - now
Director, European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL)
07/05 - 07/13
Associate Director, European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL)
03/05 - now
Professor (apl.), Medical Faculty, Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg
02/05 - 06/05
Co-Director “EMBL International Center for Advanced Training”
01/02 - now
Co-Director “Molecular Medicine Partnership Unit”, University of
Heidelberg/EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany
01/01 - 06/05
Unit Coordinator “Training, Partnership & Endowment”, EMBL
04/98 - now
Senior Scientist, EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany
03/96 - 06/05
Dean of Graduate Studies, EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany
05/89 - now
Group Leader, EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany
08/87 - 04/89
Visiting Associate, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development,
NIH, Bethesda, MD 20892, U.S.A.
08/85 - 07/87
Guest Researcher, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development,
NIH, Bethesda, MD 20892, U.S.A.
02/85 - 07/85
Attending Physician, Internal Medicine, St. Vinzenz Hospital,
Rheda-Wiedenbrück, Germany
CURRICULUM VITAE
AWARDS, HONORS AND SPECIAL LECTURES
2010
2007
2006
2003
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2000
1997
1985
Honorary Faculty Member, Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute, Sydney, Australia
Lautenschläger Research Prize of the University of Heidelberg
Elected Member German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
Elected Director of the International BioIron Society (IBIS)(until 2007)
Elected Member of the “European Academy of Sciences”
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize of the German Research Foundation (DFG)
Elected member of “European Molecular Biology Organization” (EMBO)
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft: Postdoctoral fellowship
2012
2011
Special Seminar, IGCMB, Strasbourg, France
Keynote Lecture, EMBO Meeting “Intracellular RNA Localization & Localized
Translation”, Il Ciocco, Italy
Invited Plenary Lecture, 16th Annual Meeting of the RNA Society,
Kyoto, Japan
The Kjeldgaard Lecture, University of Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark
The President’s Lecture, Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute,
San Diego, USA
The Princesses’ Lecture, Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute, Sydney, Australia
The EMBO Lecture, 4th RNA Stability Meeting, Montreal, Canada
The EMBO Lecture, 31st Lorne Genome Conference, Lorne, Australia
Distinguished Lecture, Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research, McGill University,
Montreal
The XXXII Meeting of the Chilean Society for Molecular Biology and Biochemistry,
Keynote Speaker, Termas de Chillan, Chile
The AARS (Internat. Conference on Aminoacyl-tRNA Synthetases) Plenary Lecture, Lac
Annecy, France
The Stephen I. Morse Memorial Lecture, State University of New York at Downstate
Medical Center, New York
Keystone Symposium “Translational Regulatory Mechanisms”, Coeur d’Alene, USA,
Keynote Speaker
Translational Control and Non-Coding RNA Meeting, Nove Hrady, Czech Republic,
Keynote Speaker
17th Annual Meeting of the German, Austrian and Swiss Society for Human Genetics,
Keynote Speaker
The EMBO Lecture, 1st International BioIron Congress, Prague, Czech Republic
Greek Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Keynote Speaker
Research Fellows’ Visiting Professor, Lerner Research Institute of the Cleveland Clinic
Foundation
CBM Madrid Severo Ochoa Lecture ‘Avances en Biologia Molecular’
Rockefeller University, Student and Postdoc Sponsored Seminar
Erasmus Lecture on Genetics, Erasmus University Rotterdam
Israel Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Keynote Speaker
2011
2011
2011
2010
2010
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2010
2009
2008
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2006
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2005
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2002
2001
2000
2000
EDITORIAL POSITIONS
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Faculty of 1000, Biology and Medicine (since 2010)
International Advisory Board, Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews RNA (since 2009)
Senior Editor, EMBO Molecular Medicine (since 2008)
Editorial Board, Molecular Cell (since 2004)
Editorial Board, J. Molecular Medicine (since 2004)
Editorial Board, BioMed Central Molecular Biology (since 2003)
Editorial Board, RNA (since 1997)
Editorial Board, trends in Biochemical Sciences [TiBS] (since 1996)
CURRICULUM VITAE
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Advisor to the Editors (2000-05) and Advisory Editorial Board, EMBO Reports (2000-08)
Editorial Board, EMBO J. (1999-2008)
Editorial Board, Nitric Oxide-Biology and Chemistry (1997-2004)
Editorial Board, Journal of Commercial Biotechnology (1998-2002)
Editorial Board, Journal of Biotechnology in Healthcare (1994-1998)
SCIENTIFIC ADVISORY BOARDS/PANELS:
active
• Member of the Scientific Advisory Board, Berlin Institute of Health, Berlin, Germany
(2013-)
• Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Cold Spring Harbor Conferences
Asia, Suzhou, China (2013-)
• Member of the Board of Trustees, Max-Planck-Institute for Astronomy, Heidelberg,
Germany (2013-)
• Chair of the Scientific Advisory Board, VIB, Ghent, Belgium (2012-)
• Scientific Advisory Board, Centenary Institute, Sydney, Australia (2011-)
• Chair of the Scientific Advisory Board, BioCity Turku, Turku, Finland (2010-)
• Chair of the Scientific Advisory Board, Max-Delbrück-Center for Molecular Medicine,
Berlin, Germany (2009-)
• Member of the Board of Trustees, Max-Delbrück-Center for Molecular Medicine,
Berlin, Germany (2009-)
• International Advisory Board, Queens University Belfast Medical School, U.K. (2008-)
• Advisory Board, Spemann Graduate School of Biology and Medicine, Freiburg
University (2007-)
• Scientific Advisory Board, Centro de Biologia Molecular “Severo Ochoa” (CBMSO),
• Madrid, Spain (2006-)
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Chair, Evaluation of the DKFZ/ZMBH Alliance, Heidelberg, Germany (2010)
International Scientific Advisory Committee, Centro de Investigation Cooperativa en
Biosciencias (CIC-Biogune), Zamudio, Spain (2003-2009)
Scientific Advisory Board, Wellcome Trust “PhD Programmes Committee” (2006/2007)
EMBO Science and Society Committee (2003-2006)
Founding Committee member of the International BioIron Society (2002/2003)
Ministerium für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kunst Baden-Württemberg,
Biologie/Medizin für das Forschungsschwerpunktprogramm, (2002-2005)
Member of Board, European Association for Higher Education in Biotechnology
(1998-2001)
Chair of the Curriculum Committee, European Association for Higher Education in
Biotechnology (1998-2001)
Advisory Board of Directors, Minerva Center for Calcium and Bone Metabolism,
Hadassah University Hospital, Jerusalem, Israel (1999-2006)
Member, Gulbenkian Ph.D. Programme Advisory Panel (2000)(Ad Hoc)
AFFILIATIONS
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European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) - Elected member
German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina - Elected member
European Academy of Sciences - Elected member
RNA Society
International BioIron Society
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Biologische Chemie