!! Alfred Wittinghofer - Curriculum Vitae
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*born in Goch, Kreis Kleve, Germany, 23.5.1943
*son of Josef and Else Wittinghofer
*married to Uschi Wittinghofer, father of two sons, Pan and Henk
*Easter 1963: Abitur at the Friedrich-Spee-Gymnasium Geldern
*1962-1968: Study of Chemistry at the Technische Hochschule Aachen, Germany
*June 1968: Diploma
*Diploma work and Doctoral thesis at the German Wool Research Institute in Aachen, subject: total chemical synthesis of insulin
*March 1971: Ph.D  
*1971-1973: postdoctoral fellow with Prof. R.G. Hiskey at the University of North Carolina, subject: modification of proteins
*Since 1974 scientific assistant at the Max-Planck-Institut für medizinische Forschung, Heidelberg, Germany
*Since 1980 head of an own research group: Studies on structure/function of EF-Tu, adenylate kinase, myosin heavy chain and the oncogene product Ras, biology of the Ras gene, interaction of Ras with regulators and effectors, studies on Ran regulated nuclear transport
*1992: Habilitation, University Heidelberg, Germany. Habilitation for Biochemistry at the Faculty of Medicine, University Heidelberg
*1993 – June 2009 Director of the Department ‘Structural Biology’ at the Max-Planck-Institute of Molecular Physiology, Dortmund, Germany General subject: GTP-binding proteins in cell biology
*Honorarprofessor for Biochemistry at the Faculty of Chemistry Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany
*Since July 2009 Emeritus Group at the Max-Planck-Institute of Molecular Physiology, Dortmund, Germany
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__Awards__
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*Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine 2001
*Richard-Kuhn-Medal of the Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker (GDCh),  2002
*Deutscher Krebspreis 2003 der Deutschen Krebsgesellschaft e.V.
*Otto-Warburg-Medal of the GBM, 2003
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__Lectures__
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*Nathan O. Kaplan Memorial Lecture, University of California, San Diego, 1997
*Felix Hoppe-Seyler Lecturer 1998
*Rudolf Virchow-Lecture, Medizinische Fakultät der Universität Würzburg, 2002
*Otto-Warburg-Chemie Lecture, Otto-Warburg-Chemie-Foundation, University Bayreuth, 2004
*Keynote lecture FASEB Summer Research Conference: Regulation and Function small GTPases, Saxton River 2008
*Director Lecture, Sloan Kettering Comprehensive Cancer Center New York, 2008
*NIH Director’s Lecture, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 2009
*Keynote lecture: Conference Jacques-Monod, Regulation and Function of small GTPaases, Aussois 2009
*Keynote Lecture Eurotox 2009, Dresden
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__Honours__
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*EMBO Member
*Member of the Academia Europaea
*Senator Section Biochemistry/Biophysik of the Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina
*Member of the Nordrhein-Westfälische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Class for Naturwissenschaften und Medizin
*Honorary Member of the Japanese Biochemical Society
*Fellow of the European Academy of Cancer Sciences, since 2009