Bert Sakmann#
| Email: | bs 'at' mpimf-heidelberg.mpg.de |
| Membership Number: | 1221 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Section: | PHYSIOLOGY & NEUROSCIENCE |
| Username: | bsakmann |
| Elected: | 1992 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2008- Emeritus at Max Planck Institute of Heidelberg
- 1991- Director of the Max Planck Institute of Heidelberg
- 1989- Professor of Medicine at University of Heidelberg
- 1973- 1989- Researcher of Neurobiology at Max Planck Institute of Göttingen
- 1970- 1973- Researcher of Biophysics at University College London
- 1969- 1970- Researcher of Neurophysiology at Max Planck Institute of Munich
- 1974- MD at Medical School at University of Munich
Fields of Scholarship
- Cellular ion channels
- Cell physiology
Honours and Awards
- Erasmus Medal of the Academia Europaea (2006)
- Nobel Prize for Medicine (1991)
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (1987)
- Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize from Columbia University (1986)
