“I am delighted that Prof. Alfred Nordheim is joining FLI as Scientific Director”, says Dr. Daniele Barthel, Administrative Director of FLI. “He is a highly renowned researcher and I’m sure that he will guide the Institute’s scientific activities in a successful way”. FLI’s Board of Trustees and the Scientific Advisory Board had chosen Prof. Nordheim as the successful candidate. The appointment of a new Scientific Director had become necessary after FLI’s former Scientific Director, Prof. Dr. K. Lenhard Rudolph, was reprimanded publically by the Leibniz Association in summer 2017.
Molecular Biologist and Cancer Researcher
Prof. Dr. Alfred Nordheim, an expert in vertebrate differentiation and organ development, is currently holding the chair on “Molecular Biology” at the Interfaculty Institute for Cell Biology (IFIZ) at Tübingen University, Germany. He studied biology at Free University Berlin and, in 1979, completed his PhD (Dr. rer. nat.). He then was postdoc at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT, Boston, USA) for four years, before heading a research group at Heidelberg University for six years and subsequently leading the Institute for Molecular Biology at Hannover Medical School (MHH) for seven years. Since 1996, he has been a Professor in Tübingen University. He will continue his work there, but will split his time between Tübingen and Jena.
“I am really looking forward to this new challenge in Jena”, says Prof. Dr. Alfred Nordheim. “The Institute’s aging research is of utmost societal imporance. FLI has attained an excellent international reputation. All the more am I happy to guide FLI’s scientific endeavors in the near future”.
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