Robert Tampé#
| Membership Number: | 7178 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2025 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.biochem.uni-frankfurt.de |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-0403-2160 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2001 - present Full Professor / Director, Institute of Biochemistry, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany
- 1998 - 2001 Full Professor / Director, Physiological Chemistry, Medical Faculty, Philipps University Marburg
- 1996 - 1998 Assistant Professor in Biochemistry / Biophysics, Technical University (TU) Munich
- 1996 Habilitation in Biochemistry, TU Munich
- 1992 - 1998 Max Planck Research Group Leader, MPI of Biochemistry, Martinsried
- 1992 - 1998 Independent Research Group Leader, Department of Biophysics, TU Munich
- 1990 - 1991 Max Kade Fellowship, Stanford University (with Harden M. McConnell), USA
- 1987 - 1989 PhD in Biochemistry with highest honors (summa cum laude), TU Darmstadt
Fields of Scholarship
- Optochemical biology
- Membrane proteins
- ER quality control
- Antigen processing
- Protein biogenesis
- Membrane transport
- Antigen recognition
- Membrane biology
- Membrane Receptor Clustering
Honours and Awards
- 2025 - 2030 ERC Advanced Grant (2nd), ERC Investigator, Life Sciences LS1, European Research Council
- 2023 - 2024 Schaefer Research Award, Columbia University, New York, USA
- 2019 Director, Inst. Struct. Mol. Biol. (ISMB) and Head of Joint Research Departments, University College London (UCL) - declined
- 2019 Elected EMBO Member, Structural Biology, Membrane/Transport, Immunology, etc.
- 2018 Reinhart Koselleck Grant Award, German Research Foundation (DFG)
- 2018 - 2024 ERC Advanced Grant, ERC Investigator, Life Sciences LS1, European Research Council
- 2017 Appointed Honorary Visiting Fellow, Merton College, University of Oxford, UK
- 2017 - 2018 Visiting Professor, Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford, UK
- 2010 Excellence in Teaching Award (3x), Goethe University Frankfurt
- 2010 - 2021 Honorary Professorship, iCeMS, Kyoto University, Japan
- 2009 - 2010 Adjunct & Visiting Professor, University of California San Francisco (UCSF), USA
- 1996 - 1998 Heisenberg Fellow, German Research Foundation (DFG), Germany
- 1989 - 1991 Postdoctoral Fellowship of DFG and Max Kade Foundation, New York, USA
- 1987 - 1989 PhD Fellowship, awarded by the Chemical Industry (FCI), Germany
- 1985 Anton Keller Prize in Chemistry, Germany
- 1987 Dissertation (summa cum laude)
- 1984 - 1987 Fellow, Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes, Germany
- 1983 - 1987 Fellow, Cusanuswerk, Germany
