Elisabeth Knust
Director
Board of Director
CBG
Japan
Biography
Elisabeth Knust was born on 9th January, 1951. She completed her PhD in biology at the University of Düsseldorf in 1979 and worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of Clinical Virology at the University Erlangen-Nürnberg (1980-1983). Elisabeth Knust was Assistant Professor at the Institute of Developmental Biology at the University of Cologne from 1983 to 1988), and a Heisenberg Fellow at the University of Cologne and University of Boulder, Colorado (1988-1990). She became Full Professor for Developmental Biology at the University of Cologne in 1990, then moved on to the Heinrich-Heine University in Düsseldorf as Full Professor and Head of the Institute of Genetics in 1996. She became one of the Directors at the MPI-CBG in 2007, succeeding Founding Director Kai Simons. Elisabeth Knust received the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize in 1997.
Research Interest
Clinical Virology, developmental Biology
