Principal Investigator (PI)

 

Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Andreas Kispert

W3-Professor for Developmental Biology of Vertebrates

 

Contact

Prof. Dr. Andreas Kispert

Institut für Molekularbiologie

OE5250

Medizinische Hochschule Hannover

Carl-Neuberg-Str. 1

D-30625 Hannover

Germany

 

Tel.: 0511 532 4017

Fax: 0511 532 4283

Email: kispert.andreas@mh-hannover.de

 

Office: Building I6 (Theorie II), Floor 4, Room 2560

 

 

Curriculum Vitae

 

School education

1974-1983

Nikolaus-Kistner-Gymnasium in Mosbach (Germany)

 

Academic education

1983-1989

Study of Biochemistry at the University of Tübingen (Germany)

1987-1988

Scientific year at the Queen Mary College and the Middlesex Hospital and University College Medical School in London (GB)

1989-1990

Diploma thesis at the Max-Planck-Institute for Developmental Biology in Tübingen (Germany) in the group of Dr. Bernhard Herrmann. ("Isolation and characterisation of an S6 kinase II homologous gene from the T/t-complex region of the mouse")

 

Doctoral training

1990-1993

Ph.D. thesis in the laboratory of Dr. Bernhard Herrmann at the Max-Planck-Institute for Developmental Biology in Tübingen (Germany) ("Studies on the function of the Brachyury (T)protein and its homologues in vertebrates and in Drosophila melanogaster")

 

Professional career

1993-1994

Postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Dr. Bernhard Herrmann at the Max-Planck-Institute for Developmental Biology, Tübingen (Germany)

1994-1996

Postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Prof. Andrew McMahon in the Biological Laboratories at Harvard University, Cambridge (USA)

1997-2001

Group leader at the Max-Planck-Institute for Immunobiology, Freiburg (Germany)

2001-2008

C3-Professor for Developmental Biology of Vertebrates at Hannover Medical School in Hannover (Germany)

Since 2008

W3-Professor for Developmental Biology of Vertebrates at Hannover Medical School in Hannover (Germany)

 

Awards

1983

Price for the best results in all subjects, Scheffel-Price awarded for the best results in German language, Leibnitz-Price awarded for a scientific work at the Nikolaus-Kistner-Gymnasium in Mosbach

1984-1990

Scholar of the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes

1994

Otto-Hahn-Medal of the Max-Planck-Society

1994-1996

Fellowship of the Human Science Frontier Project Organization

2000

Offer of a C3-Professorship for Developmental Biology at the Medical School at Homburg/Saar

2001

Offer of a C3-Professorship for Developmental Biology of Vertebrates at Hannover Medical School in Hannover

2007

Offer of a W3-Professorship for Functional Morphology and Evolution of Vertebrates at Philipps-University Marburg

2008

Offer of a W3-Professorship for Developmental Biology of Vertebrates at Hannover Medical School in Hannover

2010                Ruysch Lecture, Amsterdam Medical School