Curriculum Vitae

2013
Emeritus of Excellence
Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany

2007
Visiting Professor
Cardiff University, Wales, UK

2005
Guest Professor
Duisburg-Essen University, Duisburg, Germany

2001
Visiting Professor
Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain

1976
Apl. Professor
Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
2005
Director Emeritus

1972 - 2005
Director
at the Max-Planck-Institut für Biochemie and Scientific Member at Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
1968
Habilitation
Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
1963
Dr. rer. nat.
Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
1993
Diploma in Chemistry
Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
Editor
Journal of Molecular Biology


Awards and Honors


2018
Dr. h. c. Shiraz University, Iran

2018
Dr. h. c. Jessore University of Science and Technology, Bangladesh

2017
Cross Commander of Order for Merits to Lithuania

2016
Dr. h. c. Universidad Nacional, Costa Rica

2016
Panama Science Award, Panama

2016
Honorary Distinguished Professor, Cardiff University, UK

2014
Honorary Professor of European University Cyprus

2014
Xu Guangqi Medal, SIBS, Shanghai,China

2014
Honorary Professor, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China

2014
Dr. h. c. Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland

2012
Dr. h. c. Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria

2012
Honorary Professor, Nanjing University of Technology, Nanjing, China

2012
Honorary President and Chief Scientific Advisor, Tianjin International Joint Academy of Biotechnology & Medicine, Tianjin, China

2012
Honorary Professor, Tianjin University of Science and Technology, Tianjin, China

2011
Dr. h.c. Universitas Vilnensis, Vilnius, Lithuania

2011
National Medal of the Order ‘Manuel Amador Guerrero’ of the Republic of Panama

2010
Dr. h.c. Universidad de Buenos Aires, Republica Argentina

2009
Honorary Director of the Nobel Life Science Research Center, Foshan, China

2009
Honorary Professor, Huaqiao University, Xiamen, China

2009
Erice Prize- Premio Ettore Majorana

2009
Distinguished Research Chair Professor, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

2008
Dr. h.c. Nagoya University, Japan

2006
Profesor Honorario de la Universidad de Sevilla

2005
‘Lotte Distinguished Professorship’, Seoul National University, Korea

2005
Honorary Professor, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China

2004
Premio Città di Firenze sulle Scienze Molecolari, Florenz

2004
Röntgenplakette der Stadt Remscheid-Lennep

2004
Honorary Professor, Shanghai Second Medical University, Shanghai

2003
Honorary Professor, Sichuan University, Chengdu

2003
Honorary Professor, Peking University, Peking

2003
Dr. h.c. Tsinghua University, Peking

2002
Honorary Professor, Ocean University, Qingdao

2000
Dr. h.c. Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain

2000
Dr. h.c. Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal

1997
Das Grosse Verdienstkreuz mit Stern und Schulterband der Bundesrepublik Deutschland

1997
Max-Bergmann-Medaille des Max-Bergmann-Kreises zur Förderung der peptidchemischen Forschung

1997
Max Tishler Prize, Harvard University, USA

1995
Miami Winter Symposia, The Distinguished Service Award

1993/94
The Linus Pauling Medal

1993
Bayerischer Maximiliansorden für Wissenschaft und Kunst

1992
Sir Hans Krebs Medal, Federation of European Biochemical Societies

1991
Rudi Lemberg Travelling Fellowship

1991
Dr. h.c. for Medicine and Surgery, Università Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy

1990
Kone Award, Association of Clinical Biochemists, United Kingdom

1989
Dr .h.c. University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

1989
E.K.Frey - E. Werle Gedächtnismedaille

1988
Nobel Prize in Chemistry

1987
Dr. h.c. Université Catholique de Louvain,

1987
Richard-Kuhn Medal, Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker

1987
Keilin Medal, Biochemical Society, London

1982
Emil von Behring Medal, Universität Marburg

1977
Otto-Warburg Medal, Gesellschaft für Biologische Chemie

1972
E.K.-Frey Medal, Gesellschaft für Chirurgie


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.

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