Edward A. Lemke#
| Membership Number: | 7175 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2025 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.lemkelab.com |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-0634-0503 |
| X: | @lemkelab |
| Linkedin: | https://www.linkedin.com/company/lemke-lab |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2024 Spokesperson for Mainz, Carl Zeiss Stiftung Center for Synthetic Genomics (12 Mio/6 y)
- 2023 Spokesperson, Coordinated Research Center 1551 on Polymer Concepts in Cellular function (12 Mio EUR/4y)
- 2019 Cofunder and Consultant Araxa Biosciences GmbH (since 2021 Veraxa Biotech GmbH, www.veraxa.com)
- 2019 Spokesperson, Priority Program 2191 on Molecular Mechanisms of Functional Phase separation (12 Mio EUR/6y)
- 2018 Professor JGU Mainz (W3), Faculty of Biology and joint appointed with Department of Chemistry, Mainz, Germany
- 2018 Adjunct Director IMB, Mainz, Germany
- 2018 - 2021 Visiting Group Leader EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany
- 2009 - 2017 Independent Group Leader at the EMBL Heidelberg, Germany, Structural & Computational Biology Unit
- 2005 - 2008 Joint Research Associate (Postdoctorate), Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA, USA
- 2002 - 2005 PhD (Dr. rer. nat.) Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen
- 1997 - 2001 Diploma, Technical University of Berlin, Germany
- 1999 - 2001 Master of Science, University of Oklahoma, USA
Fields of Scholarship
- Synthetic biology
- Chemical biology
- Intrinsically disordered proteins
- Single molecule biophysics
- Super resolution microscopy
- Nuclear transport
Honours and Awards
- 2025 Fellow of the Biophysical Society USA
- 2022 Elected EMBO member
- 2019 ERC Advanced Grant (LS domain)
- 2019 Kavli Frontiers of Science Alumni
- 2018 Gutenberg Research College Fellow
- 2018 ERC POC grant
- 2017 FEBS Anniversary Award
- 2016 Chica and Heinz Schaller Award for Biomedical Research
- 2015 Young Investigator Award of the International Society for Chemical Biology
- 2015 ERC Consolidator Grant (PE domain)
- 2013 MRN Innovation Award (jointly to C. Schultz and E. Lemke)
- 2010 Emmy Noether Program of the DFG
- 2006 Feodor Lynen Postdoctoral Fellowship of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
- 2003 PhD Fellowship of the Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds
- 2002 Erwin-Stephan Award for Excellent and Fast Studies, Technical University of Berlin
- 2001 Scholarship of the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes
- 1999 - 2000 Oversea-Scholarship of the Technical University of Berlin
- 1999 - 2000 Klaus-Koch-Scholarship for Excellent Studies, Technical University of Berlin
