Werner Franke#
| Sadly, this member passed away. | |
| Membership Number: | 448 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 1989 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
Werner Franke passed away November 14, 2022.
Positions Held
- 2008 Helmholtz Professorship for Cell Biology at the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg
- 1973 Professor and Head of Research Division at the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) in Heidelberg and the Faculty of Biology, University of Heidelberg
- 1971 Associate Professor) at the Department of Biology, University of Freiburg i. Br.
- 1971 Habilitation (venia legendi) for Cell Biology
- 1967 Assistant Professor at the Department of Biology, University of Freiburg i. Br. (Germany)
- 1967 Dr. rer nat. (Ph.D.) University of Heidelberg (summa cum laude)
Fields of Scholarship
- Use of doping
- Drug abuse in sports
- Molecular biology
- Cell Biology
Honours and Awards
- 1977 Elected Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
- 1978 Elected Member of the European Cell Biology Organization (ECBO)
- 1981 Wilhelm and Maria Meyenburg-Prize for Cancer Research (Heidelberg)
- 1984 Ernst Jung Prize for Medical Research (Hamburg)
- 1984 11th William Bateson Memorial Lecture, Norwich (U.K.)
- 1986 Election as Member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences
- 1988 Honorary Member of the American Association of Anatomists
- 1988 Anders Retzius Lecture at the Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm (Sweden)
- 1989 Election as Member of the Academia Europaea
- 1989 Robert Feulgen Lecture of the "Gesellschaft für Histochemie", Gargellen (Austria)
- 1990 Tinsley R. Harrison Lecture, University of Alabama School of Medicine
- 1990 Chairman of Alfred P. Sloan, Jr. Prize Committee, General Motors Cancer Research Foundation
- 1991 Wilhelm Bernhard Medal Award (Les Diablerets, Switzerland)
- 1994 Carl Zeiss Lecture, German Society for Cell Biology
- 1994 Hans Bloemendal Lecture, University of Nijmegen (Netherlands)
- 1995 Wilhelm Feldberg Prize, Feldberg Foundation for Anglo-German Scientific Exchange (England)
- 1995 German Cancer Prize of the "Deutsche Krebsgesellschaft" (Frankfurt)
- 1997 Peter Hemmerich Lecture, University of Konstanz
- 2001 Most Highly Cited Researchers Database of the Institute for Scientific Information/Thomson Scientific, Philadelphia (Category: Molecular Biology and Genetics)
- 2001 P.C. Swan Lecture, Cornell University, New York (USA)
- 2001 Honorary Lecture of the European Tissue Culture Society (Granada, Spain)
- 2003 Medal of Honor ("Verdienstkreuz am Bande") of the Federal Republic of Germany
- 2004 24. Alfred Marchionini Memorial Lecture (University of Hamburg)
- 2005 Honorary Member of the German Society for Cell Biology
- 2005 Award of the International Society of Skin Pharmacology and Physiology
- 2007 Election as "Hochschullehrer des Jahres" (Professor of the Year) of the German Academic Association (Bonn)
- 2009 Honorary Medal of the Medical Faculty of the Carolus University Prague (Czech Republic)
