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Reinhard Jahn
Reinhard Jahn
Born	21 December 1950 (age 74); Leverkusen, Germany
Nationality	German
Alma mater	University of Göttingen
Known for	Membrane fusion
Awards	Leibniz Prize (2000); Ernst Jung Prize (2006); Balzan Prize (2016);
	Scientific career
Fields	Biology
Institutions	University of Göttingen and Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry
Doctoral advisor	Hans-Dieter Söling
Website	www.uni-goettingen.de/en/56703.html; www.mpibpc.mpg.de/jahn; www.nasonline.org/member-directory/members/20035912.html;

Reinhard Jahn (born 21 December 1950) is a German biophysicist and neurobiologist known for his studies of cellular membrane fusion. For these investigations, he has been honored with numerous awards, including the 2000 Leibniz Award. Jahn is currently Director at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry and the President of the University of Göttingen in Göttingen, Germany.

Early life and education

Reinhard Jahn was born in Leverkusen, Germany in 1950. He moved to Göttingen to study biology and biochemistry. Working in the lab of Hans-Dieter Söling, in 1981 he received a PhD from the University of Göttingen.

Career and research

Dr. Jahn moved to New York City to work as a postdoc in the lab of Paul Greengard, where he went on to become an Assistant Professor at The Rockefeller University. In 1986 he returned to Germany as a Junior Group Leader at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry in Munich. In 1991 he moved to New Haven to join the faculty at the Yale School of Medicine, where he became a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator.^[1] He was recruited back to his alma mater to become Director at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, position which he holds currently.^[2] In 2019 he was additionally elected as President of the University of Göttingen.

Awards and honors

1990: Max Planck Research Award
2000: Leibniz Prize
2004: Member of the Leopoldina^[3]
2006: Ernst Jung Prize
2008: Sir Bernard Katz Prize
2010: Lower Saxony Science Award
2014: Heinrich Wieland Prize
2015: Foreign associate of the National Academy of Sciences (United States)^[2]
2015: Member of the Academia Europaea^[4]
2015: Full member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities^[5]
2016: Communitas Prize of the Max Planck Society
2016: Balzan Prize

References

^ "Reinhard Jahn, PhD". HHMI. Retrieved 27 November 2021.
^ ^a ^b "Reinhard Jahn". National Academy of Sciences. Archived from the original on 24 March 2019.
^ "Prof. Dr. Reinhard Jahn". German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. Archived from the original on 21 May 2020.
^ "Reinhard Jahn". Academia Europaea. Archived from the original on 28 March 2019.
^ "Prof. Dr. Reinhard Jahn". Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities. Archived from the original on 7 May 2016.