Magdalena Götz

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Magdalena Götz (born 17 January 1962)[1] is a German neuroscientist. She is noted for her study of glial cells and holds a chair at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich's Department of Physiology.[2]

She is involved in the field of adult neurogenesis.[3]

Early life and education[]

Götz studied Biology between the years 1982 and 1989 at the University of Tübingen, Germany and in Zürich, Switzerland.[1] She was promoted in 1992 at the Friedrich-Miescher Laboratory of the Max-Planck Society, Tübingen. After her promotion and until 1996, she was a postdoctoral fellow at the National Institute for Medical Research, London and Smith Kline Bechaam, Harlow.[1]

Career[]

Götz led between 1997 and 2003 an independent Research Group at the Max-Planck Institute of Neurobiology in Martinsried, Munich. She is since 2004 Director of the Institute of Stem Cell Research at the Helmholtz Center Munich.

Since 2011 Götz has a Research Professorship at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.

Awards and honors (selection)[]

  • 2007 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize[1][4]
  • 2007 Hansen Family Award[1]
  • 2014 Ernst Schering Prize[1][5]
  • 2015 Carl-Zeiss Award of the German Society for Cell Biology [1]
  • 2015 German Stem Cell Network Female Scientist Award[1]
  • 2016 Roger de Spoelberch Foundation Award[1][6]
  • 2018 Schellenberg Award[7][1]

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g h i j "Curriculum vitae Prof. Dr. Magdalena Götz - Munich Cluster for Systems Neurology - LMU Munich". www.synergy-munich.de. Retrieved 7 March 2019.
  2. ^ "Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize site". Dfg.de. Retrieved 4 February 2014.
  3. ^ Eva Amsen (15 August 2011). "Interview with Magdalena Götz at Development". Development. Dev.biologists.org. 138 (16): 3341–3342. doi:10.1242/dev.066027. PMID 21791525. Retrieved 4 February 2014.
  4. ^ "DFG - Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft - 404 Seite nicht gefunden".
  5. ^ "Ernst Schering Prize". Ernst Schering Foundation. Archived from the original on 23 December 2017. Retrieved 16 January 2015.
  6. ^ "ROGER DE SPOELBERCH Prize". Fondation ROGER DE SPOELBERCH. Retrieved 7 March 2019.
  7. ^ "News – Helmholtz Zentrum München". www.helmholtz-muenchen.de. Retrieved 7 March 2019.
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