Ernst-ludwig Winnacker

Biography

Professor Winnacker is co-founder of MediGene and chairman of the company's supervisory bodies since 1994. He studied chemistry at the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH) - Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, where he graduated and did his doctorate. After research assignments in Berkley, USA, and at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, and his postdoctoral lecturing qualification at the university of Cologne, Professor Winnacker holds a chair of biochemistry at the university of Munich since 1980. There he built up the biochemistriy of viruses department, and in 1984 he founded the Munich Gene Center, of which he is the chairman since the beginning. From 1984 until 1987, Professor Winnacker was president of the German Society for Biological Chemistry. Since 1996, he has been visiting professor at the Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts. From 1987 until 1993 he acted as Vice President of the German Resarch Foundation (DFG). From 1998 until 2006, Professor Winnacker has been full-time President of the DFG. He also served from 2007 until 2009 as Secretary-General of the European Research Council of the European Commission in Brussels and from 2009 until 2015 as Secretary General of The Human Frontier Science Program in Strasbourg. Professor Winnacker has received numerous awards in science.

Research Interest

Biochemistry