Andreas_Plückthun
Andreas Plückthun
German biochemist (born 1956)
Andreas Plückthun (born May 7, 1956) is a scientist whose research is focused on the field of protein engineering. Andreas Plückthun is the director of the department of biochemistry at the University of Zurich.[1] Plückthun was appointed to the faculty of the University of Zurich as a Full professor of biochemistry in 1993. Plückthun was group leader at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry , Germany (1985-1993). He was elected to the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) in 1992,[2] and named a member of the German National Academy of Science (Leopoldina) in 2003.[3] He is cofounder of the biotechnology companies Morphosys (Martinsried, Germany) Molecular Partners AG[4] (Zürich-Schlieren, Switzerland) and G7 Therapeutics.[5] (Zürich-Schlieren, Switzerland).[6]
Plückthun is a member of the board directors of the Antibody Society.
His work is highly cited in the field of antibody engineering. He has been honoured by a number of international awards.