Heinrich Betz#
| Membership Number: | 403 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSIOLOGY & NEUROSCIENCE |
| Elected: | 1989 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | https://brain.mpg.de/betz |
Present and Previous Positions
- Since 1993 Adjunct Professor for Biochemistry, University of Frankfurt
- 1990 - 2009 Director of the Department of Neurochemistry at the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Frankfurt
- 1986 - 1990 Full Professor (C4) for Molecular Neurobiology and Neuropharmacology at ZMBH, Heidelberg
- 1983 - 1986 Associate Professor (C3) for Neurobiology at the Center of Molecular Biology, University of Heidelberg, (ZMBH)
- 1979 - 1983 Group leader at the Max Planck Institute for Psychiatry, Munich
Fields of Scholarship
- Neurochemistry
Honours and Awards
- 1975 Goedecke Research Prize
- 1983 Carl-Duisberg Memorial Prize (German Chemical Society, Dortmund)
- 1988 Wilhelm Feldberg Prize (Cambridge)
- 1989 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Award (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Bonn)
- 1990 Gay Lussac Humboldt Prize (Centre de Recherche Scientifique, Grenoble)
- 1992 First C. Hirth Memorial Lecturer (University of Strasbourg, France)
- 1996 A. J. Carlson Memorial Lecturer (University of Chicago, USA)
- 1998 Neuronal Plasticity Prize (Ipsen-Stiftung, Paris)
- 2002 Pfizer lecturer of the Society for Neuroscience (Orlando, Fla.)
- 2008 Nature Award for Mentoring in Science (Berlin)
- 2009 Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science
