Curriculum Vitae

Awards and Honors

Societies

Member of the Deutsche Chemische Gesellschaft;

Member of the Gesellschaft für Biologische Chemie;

Honorary Member of the American Society of Biological Chemists;

Honorary Member of the Swedish Society for Biophysics;

Member of EMBO;

Honorary Member of the Japanese Biochemical Society;

Member of the Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften;

Member of the Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher, Leopoldina;

Member of the European Academy of Arts, Sciences and Humanities;

Corresponding Member of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts;

Member of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Rome;

Member of the Orden Pour le Mérite für Wissenschaften und Künste;

Associate Fellow, Third World Academy of Sciences, Triest;

Foreign Associate, National Academy of Sciences, USA;

Fellow, American Academy of Microbiology;

Foreign Member of the Royal Society, London;

Honorary Member of the Sociedad Espanola de Bioquimica y Biologia Molecular;

Foreign Member of the Korean Academy of Science and Technology, Korea;

Foreign Fellow of the Indian National Science Academy, New Delhi;

President of the foundation board of the "Peter und Traudl Engelhorn Stiftung";

Honorary Member of the Real Academia Sevillana de Ciencias, Spain;

Académico Correspondiente Extranjero of the Real Academia de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales, Madrid

Miembro Correspondiente de la Academia Mexicana de Ciencias

Professional interests

Structure and function of biological macromolecules, in particular those of large complex aggregates.

Systems studied:

Proteases and their natural and synthetic inhibitors;

metalloenzymes (iron, nickel, molybdenum, copper);

proteins of the immune system (antibodies and antibody receptors);

protein hormones and their receptors; protein kinases;

proteins of amino acid biosynthesis (PLP containing enzymes);

proteins of cofactor and vitamin biosynthesis; proteins of energy and electron transport.

Methods development:

Patterson methods in crystallography;

methods of structure determination of proteins and protein ligand complexes by NMR;

synthesis and use of electron rich metal clusters;

crystal annealing and improvement, methods and instruments;

analysis and evaluation of targets for research and application in pharmacology and crop science.

Co-founder and advisor of two Biotech Companies, Proteros (since 1997) and SuppreMol (since 2005).

Scientific advisor of International Pharma and Crop Science Companies.

The list of publications can be found in the Web : http://www.biochem.mpg.de/xray/

Abbreviated Version

Robert Huber was born in 1937 in Munich. He studied chemistry at the Technische Universität München (TUM), where he also completed his Ph.D. and habilitation. Since 1972, he has been a member of the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft and Director at the Max-Planck-Institut für Biochemie until his retirement in 2005. Since 1976, he also serves at the TUM as a Professor. He holds appointments as Guest Professor at the Universität Duisburg-Essen (Germany), the Cardiff University (Great Britain), the Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona (Spain), and the Seoul National University (Korea). He serves as a member of the Board and/or Scientific Advisory Board of a number of pharmaceutical and crop science companies, and he is co-founder of two companies, Proteros and Suppremol, located in Martinsried and offering services for drug discovery and development and for the development of novel therapies for autoimmune diseases, respectively. Huber has made major contributions to the understanding of the structure and function of biological macromolecules. He has studied proteases and their natural and synthetic inhibitors, metalloenzymes (iron, nickel, molybdenum, copper), proteins of the immune system (antibodies and antibody receptors), protein hormones and their receptors, protein kinases, enzymes of amino acid biosynthesis, enzymes of cofactor and vitamin biosynthesis and proteins of energy and electron transfer. In addition, he has contributed to the development of instruments for data collection and to methods in protein crystallography, particularly Patterson methods, graphic methods, and refinement, to the use of electron rich metal clusters, and most recently to the methods and instruments for crystal improvement. He has been honoured by numerous honorary doctorates, professorships, memberships in learned societies and awards, including the Otto-Warburg Medal, the Emil von Behring Medal, the Sir Hans Krebs Medal, the The Linus Pauling Medal, Max Tishler Prize and, in 1988, the Nobel Prize for Chemistry together with H. Michel and J. Deisenhofer.