Prof. Dr. med. Heinrich Betz

Personal data

Born: September 20, 1944; Reutlingen, Germany
Nationality: German

Education

1963 - 1971                             
University of Tübingen and University of Munich
1969                                         
Diploma (MSc) in Biochemistry, University of Tübingen
1971                                         
Staatsexamen in Medicine and M.D., University of Tübingen

Professional Experience

1971 - 1972                             
Medizinalassistent, University of Tübingen
1972 - 1976                             
Post-Doc in Biochemistry, University of Freiburg
1976 - 1979                             
Research Fellow of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft at the Molecular Neurobiology Unit, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
1977                                         
Habilitation at the University of Freiburg
1979 - 1983                             
Group leader at the Max Planck Institute for Psychiatry, Munich
1983 - 1986                             
Associate Professor (C3) for Neurobiology at the Center of Molecular Biology, University of Heidelberg, (ZMBH)
1986 - 1990                             
Full Professor (C4) for Molecular Neurobiology and Neuropharmacology at ZMBH, Heidelberg
1990 - 2009                             
Director of the Department of Neurochemistry at the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Frankfurt
Since 1993                              
Adjunct Professor for Biochemistry, University of Frankfurt

Fellowships and Awards

1969 - 1971                             
Pre-doctoral Fellowship (Volkswagen Foundation, Hannover)
1975                                         
Goedecke Research Award (University of Freiburg)
1976 - 1978                             
Post-doctoral Fellowship (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Bonn)
1978 - 1983                             
Heisenberg-Fellowship (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Bonn)
1983                                         
Carl-Duisberg Memorial Prize (Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker, Dortmund)
1988                                         
Wilhelm-Feldberg Prize (Cambridge, U.K.)
1988                                         
Gottfried-Wilhelm-Leibniz Award 1989 (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Bonn)
1988                                         
Academia Europea
1990                                         
Gay-Lussac-Humboldt Prize (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Grenoble, France)
1992                                         
First C. Hirth Memorial Lecturer (University of Strasbourg, France)
1996                                         
A. J. Carlson Memorial Lecturer (University of Chicago, USA)
1998                                         
Neuronal Plasticity Prize (Fondation IPSEN Paris, shared with U. McMahan and G. Fischbach)
2002                                         
Pfizer lecturer of the Society for Neuroscience (Orlando, Fla.)
2008                                         
Nature Mentoring Life-Time Award Germany (Berlin)
2009                                         
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)