Bert Sakmann#
| Membership Number: | 1221 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSIOLOGY & NEUROSCIENCE |
| Elected: | 1992 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.neuro.mpg.de/english/emeritus/columninsilico/index.html |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2008 Emeritus at Max Planck Institute of Heidelberg
- 1991 Director of the Max Planck Institute of Heidelberg
- 1989 Professor of Medicine at University of Heidelberg
- 1973 - 1989 Researcher of Neurobiology at Max Planck Institute of Göttingen
- 1970 - 1973 Researcher of Biophysics at University College London
- 1969 - 1970 Researcher of Neurophysiology at Max Planck Institute of Munich
- 1974 MD at Medical School at University of Munich
Fields of Scholarship
- Cellular ion channels
- Cell physiology
Honours and Awards
- 2006 Academia Europaea Erasmus Medal
- 1991 Nobel Prize for Medicine
- 1987 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
- 1986 Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize from Columbia University
