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Executive Director of the European Molecular Biology Organization
Professor Hermann Bujard

Hermann Bujard

Hermann Bujard’s Laboratory

Hermann Bujard is the current Executive Director of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) in Heidelberg, Germany. He also maintains an active research laboratory at Heidelberg’s Center for Molecular Biology (ZMBH), where his current research focuses on the development of vaccines against malaria. He has been an EMBO Member since 1976 and also served on the EMBO Council from 1989-1995

Hermann Bujard studied organic chemistry in Freiburg and Göttingen, receiving his diploma in 1960 and a doctorate (Dr. rer. nat.) in 1962. From 1964-1969, he was a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Wisconsin and Assistant Professor at the Southwest Center for Advanced Studies in Dallas, USA. He returned to Germany in 1969 as Professor of Molecular Genetics at the University of Heidelberg. In 1982, he was appointed Head of Biological Research and Deputy Director of F. Hoffmann La Roche Ltd. in Basel, Switzerland and in 1986 became the first Director of the Center for Molecular Biology (ZMBH) at the University of Heidelberg.

Research interest
Professor Bujard’s group at ZMBH focused for many years on the mechanisms of transcription control in prokaryotes and eukaryotes. An interesting by-product of this research was the development of the tetracycline-dependent transcription control system, now widely applied in the study of gene function. Today, the Bujard group investigates malaria and the development of vaccines against P. Falciparum infections.

Professor Bujard has published 140 peer-reviewed articles and holds 25 international patents.

Selection of scientific awards and memberships
Professor Bujard has served on a number of international scientific committees and participated in the founding committees of several German institutes. Among other awards and memberships, he is a member of the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research, holds an honorary doctorate from the University of Würzburg, and has been awarded the Karl Heinz Beckurts Prize, the Yvette Mayent Prize for Cancer Research and the 2005 Medal of Merit from the German state of Baden-Württemberg.

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