Prof. Dr. Kurt von Figura
- Birth:
May 16, 1944
Heiningen, Germany - Marital Status:
Married, four children
Education:
- 1963 - 1969
Medical Studies at the Universities of Tübingen and Vienna - 1970
Doctor of Medicine; University of Tübingen
Professional Career:
- 1971 - 1977
Research assistent at the Department of Physiological Chemistry, University of Münster - 1975
Habilitation - 1977 - 1986
Professor (C3), University of Münster - 1986 - 2004
Biochemie II, Medical Faculty of the University of Goettingen, Head of the Department - 1992
Call for the Chair of Biochemistry, University of Heidelberg, declined - 2005 – 2010
President of the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
Honours:
- 1978
Preis der Hoechst AG - 1981
FEBS Anniversary Prize - 1982
Dozentenstipendium des Fonds der Chemischen Industrie - 1988
EMBO-Mitgliedschaft - 1998
Akademie der Wissenschaften Göttingen - 2002
Dr. h.c. der Universität Namur/Belgien - 2002
Otto-Warburg-Medaille - 2004
Körber-Preis 2004 für die Europäische Wissenschaft - 2004
Mitglied der Deutschen Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina