Franz-Ulrich Hartl (born 10 March 1957) is a German

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and Managing Director of the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry. He is known for his pioneering work in the field of protein-mediated protein folding and is a recipient of the 2011 Lasker Award along with

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Biography

Hartl was born in

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, Germany on 10 March 1957. He completed his M.D. (1982) and

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(1985) at the University of Heidelberg. His thesis was entitled ''The Regulation of Rat Liver Peroxisomal Metabolism by Thyroid Hormones''. He then completed his Dr. Med. Habil. from the Institute of Physiological Chemistry, University of Munich in 1990. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of Physiological Chemistry at the University of Munich in the lab of Walter Neupert from 1985 to 1986, and a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, Los Angeles in the lab of

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from 1989 to 1990. In 1991, he accepted a professorship in cell biology and genetics at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and

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in New York, until his return to Germany in 1997 to take up his present position as Director of the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Martinsried. , Hartl has an h-index of 135 according to Google Scholar and of 118 according to Scopus.

Honors

Hartl received the following honors: * 1996 Vinci Award, LVMH Science for Art competition * 1997 Lipmann Award of the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology * 1997 Foreign Member of the Academy of Science of Nordrhein-Westfalen * 1999 Academy Award of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities * 2000 Wilhelm Vaillant Research Prize * 2000 Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences * 2002

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz-Prize The Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize (german: link=no, Förderpreis für deutsche Wissenschaftler im Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz-Programm der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft), in short Leibniz Prize, is awarded by the German Research Foundation to ...

of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Council) * 2002 Member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina * 2003 Feldberg Prize * 2004 Member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences * 2004 Gairdner Foundation International Award jointly with

* 2005 Ernst Jung Prize for Medicine * 2006 Stein and Moore Award of the Protein Society * 2006

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* 2007 Wiley Prize in Biomedical Science jointly with

of Yale School of Medicine, "for their significant contribution in protein folding". * 2008 Lewis S. Rosenstiel Award for Distinguished Work in Basic Medical Research jointly with

"for their pioneering work in the field of protein-mediated protein folding" * 2008 Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize ( Columbia University) for Biology or Biochemistry jointly with

* 2008 Honorary Member, Japanese Biochemical Society * 2009 Otto Warburg Medal of the German Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (GBM) * 2010 Elected as AAAS Fellow * 2010 van Gysel Prize for Biomedical Research in Europe * 2010 The Twenty-Seventh Annual Cynthia Ann Chan Memorial Lecture, University of California, Berkeley * 2010 The

Dr H.P. Heineken Prize for Biochemistry and Biophysics The Heineken Prizes for Arts and Sciences consist of 11 awards biannually bestowed by Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. The prizes are named in honor of Henry Pierre Heineken, son of founder Gerard Adriaan Heineken, Alfred Heineken, ...

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* 2011 The

Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research The Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research is one of the prizes awarded by the Lasker Foundation for a fundamental discovery that opens up a new area of biomedical science. The award frequently precedes a Nobel Prize in Medicine; almost 5 ...

* 2011 Elected to the

National Academy of Sciences The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) is a United States nonprofit, non-governmental organization. NAS is part of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, along with the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) and the Nati ...

, USA, Foreign associate * 2011 Massry Prize from the

Keck School of Medicine The Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California teaches and trains physicians, biomedical scientists and other healthcare professionals, conducts medical research, and treats patients. Founded in 1885, it is the second oldest ...

, University of Southern California * 2012 The

Shaw Prize The Shaw Prize is an annual award presented by the Shaw Prize Foundation. Established in 2002 in Hong Kong, it honours "individuals who are currently active in their respective fields and who have recently achieved distinguished and signifi ...

in medicine * 2016 Albany Medical Center Prize * 2016

Ernst Schering Prize The Ernst Schering Prize is awarded annually by the Ernst Schering Foundation for especially outstanding basic research in the fields of medicine, biology or chemistry anywhere in the world. Established in 1991 by the Ernst Schering Research Found ...

* 2017 Debrecen award for Molecular Medicine * 2019

Dr. Paul Janssen Award for Biomedical Research The Dr. Paul Janssen Award for Biomedical Research is given annually by Johnson & Johnson to honor the work of an active scientist in academia, industry or a scientific institute in the field of biomedical research. It was established in 2004 and ...

, jointly with

Arthur Horwich Arthur L. Horwich (born 1951) is an American biologist and Sterling Professor, Sterling Professor of Genetics and Pediatrics at the Yale School of Medicine. Horwich has also been a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator since 1990. His rese ...

, from

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* 2020 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Hartl, F.U. 1957 births German biochemists Heidelberg University alumni Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich alumni Cornell University faculty Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize winners Winners of the Heineken Prize Living people Recipients of the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research Foreign associates of the National Academy of Sciences Massry Prize recipients Max Planck Institute directors