Johannes Buchner

Prof. Johannes Buchner received his PhD from the University of Regensburg, Germany. After a postdoctoral stay at the National Cancer Institute of the NIH in Bethesda, USA, he was a group leader at the University of Regensburg. Since 1998 he is a professor for Biotechnology at the Technical University of Munich/ Germany. He is a member of the Leopoldina, the German National Academy of Sciences. His research interests include mechanistic studies on molecular chaperones, principles of antibody/protein folding and association, as well as their evolution. Johannes Buchner received several prizes for his work, including the Hans Neurath Award, the Kossel-Award, the Max Bergmann Medal and the Schleiden Medal. He has authored 275 publications in peer-reviewed journals.