Wieland B. Huttner
Director
Board Of Director
CBG
Germany
Biography
Born on February 15, 1950 in Hanover, Wieland B. Huttner studied medicine in Hamburg and Oxford. He completed his PhD at the Hamburg University in 1976, and worked as a postdoc at the Max Planck Institute for Experimental Medicine and at Yale University. In 1981, he became head of a junior research group at the Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, and group head at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Heidelberg in 1985. Wieland Huttner was Professor and Chair at the Institute for Neurobiology at Heidelberg University (1991-2000), and was appointed as one of the four Founding Directors of the MPI-CBG in 1998. Wieland Huttner is Honorary Professor for Neurobiology at Dresden University of Technology and has been chair of the Scientific Council of the Max Planck Society 2009-2012.
Research Interest
Medicine science, Neurobiology
