Telephone:

+49 551 201 1630

Fax Number:

+49 551 201 1688

E-mail:

eneher@gwdg.de

URL:

http://www.mpibpc.gwdg.de/abteilungen/140/erwin_neher/

Date of Birth:

03/20/1944

City, State/Province, Country of Birth:

Landsberg/Lech, Bavaria, Germany

Citizenship(s):

German

Language(s):

German, English

Date

Degree

Institution

Subject

1970

Ph.D.

Institute of Technology, Munich, Germany

Physics

1967

M.Sc.

University of Wisconsin - Madison

Physics

1965

Vordiplom

Institute of Technology, Munich, Germany

Physics

Dates

Title

Organization

City, State/Province

Country

2010-Present

Professor

King Saud University

Riyadh

Saudi Arabia

1989

Fairchild Scholar

California Institute of Technology

Pasadena, CA

United States

1983-Present

Director

Max-Planck-Institut für Biophysikalische Chemie, Membrane Biophysics Department

Gottingen

Germany

1976-1982

Research Associate

Max-Planck-Institut für Biophysikalische Chemie

Gottingen

Germany

1975-1976

Guest Research Associate

Yale University, Department of Physiology

New Haven, CT

United States

1972-1975

Research Associate

Max-Planck-Institut für Biophysikalische Chemie, Department of Molekularer Systemaufbau

Gottingen

Germany

1968-1972

Graduate Student and Post-Doctoral

Max-Planck-Institut für Psychiatrie

Munich

Germany

1966-1967

Graduate Student and Research Assistant

University of Wisconsin - Madison

Madison, WI

United States

Date

Name

Description

2000

Honorary Degree

University of Pavia

1999

Honorary Degree

Hebrew University of Jerusalem

1998

Gold Medal 'Medicus Magnus'

Polish Academy of Medicine

1998

Honorary Member

Polish Academy of Medicine

1997-Present

Honorary Member

The Physiological Society

1997

Grosses Bundesverdienstkreuz m. Stern und Schulterband

1996

Honorary Degree

University of Rome

1995

Member

Order 'Pour le Merite' of Arts and Sciences

1995

Honorary Degree

University of Bahia Blanca

1994

Honorary Degree

Technical University of Munich

1994

Honorary Degree

University of Madrid

1994

Honorary Degree

Huazhong University of Sciences and Technology

1993

Honorary Degree

University of Alicante

1993

Honorary Degree

University of Wisconsin, Madison

1992-Present

Foreign Honorary Member

American Academy of Arts and Sciences

1991

Gerard Prize

Society for Neuroscience

1991

Carus-Preis

Stadt Schweinfurt

1991

Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine

Nobel Foundation

1990

Hans Hellmut Vits-Preis

Universitat Munster

1990

Bristol-Myers Squibb Research Award

Bristol-Myers Squibb

1989

International Research Award

Gairdner Foundation

1988

Honorary Degree

University of Limburg

1986

Louisa Gross-Horwitz Award

Columbia University

1986

Fidia Research Award Lecture

Fidia Research Foundation

1986

Schunck-Preis

Universitat Giessen

1986

Leibniz Award

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

1984

Adolf Fick-Preis

Universitat Wurzburg

1983

Spencer Award

Columbia University

1982

K.C. Cole Award

Biophysical Society

1982

Harold Lamport Award

New York Academy of Sciences

1979

Feldberg Award

Feldberg Foundation

1977

Nernst-Haber-Bodenstein Award

German Society for Physical Chemistry

1968-1970

Scholarship

Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes

1966-1967

Fulbright Scholarship and Research Assistantship

University of Wisconsin - Madison

Dates

Organization

Position

1999-Present

Nordrhein-Westfalian Academy of Sciences

Corresponding Member

1998

Polish Academy of Medicine

Honorary Member

1998

Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher

Member

1997-Present

The Physiological Society

Honorary Member

1996-Present

Journal of General Physiology

Editor

1994-Present

Academy of Science of the Ukraine

Foreign Member

1994-Present

The Royal Society

Foreign Associate Member

1993-Present

European Journal of Physiology

Editor

1992-Present

Academia Scientiarum et Artium Europaea

Member

1992-Present

American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Foreign Honorary Member

1992-Present

Proceedings of the National Academy

Editor

1991-Present

Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Gottingen

Member

1991-Present

Cellular Physiology and Biochemistry

Editor

1989-Present

Academia Europaea

Member

1989-Present

National Academy of Sciences

Foreign Associate Member

1988-Present

Bavarian Academy of Sciences

Corresponding Member

1980-1987

Journal of Physiology

Editor

Field of Expertise &
Research Interests:

- Electrophysiology of snail neuronal membranes, employing voltage clamp and ionsensitive microelectrodes.
- Gating mechanisms and ionic selectivity of channels in black lipid membranes: Interactions between two lipid membranes.
- Fluctuation and relaxation analyses in artificial and biological membranes.
- Properties of the channel peptides Gramicidin A and Monazomycin.
- Ionic selectivity of Gramicidin channels.
- Development of high resolution electrophysiological measurements.
- Open-close kinetics of ion channels in nerve and muscle membrane.
- Ionic channels in chromaffin cell membrane.
- Cellular processes involving changes in surface area as measured in membrane capacitance.
- Mechanisms of secretion control in mamallian cells.
- Simultaneous measurement of intracellular calcium concentration and ionic currents in single cells.
- Mechanisms of short term synaptic plasticity.
- Cellular Ca++ buffering and Ca++ diffusion.