BIOQUANT - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- First Female Director of the Max Planck Institute of Biophysics
On October 1, 2023, Ana J. García-Sáez, a former research group leader at BioQuant, became the Director of the Max Planck Institute (MPI) of Biophysics in Frankfurt am Main succeeding Nobel laureate Hartmut Michel.
Job Titles:
- Administration & Key Services
Job Titles:
- Deputy Executive Director
Job Titles:
- Founding Director
- Honorary Director
Job Titles:
- Group Leader
- Project Leader
MICHAEL BOUTROS, with a background in molecular biology and genetics, studies signaling networks and their impact on cellular processes. After receiving his Ph.D. from the European Molecular Biology Laboratory, he did extensive postdoctoral research at Harvard Medical School. Within the Collaborative Research Center 1324, he is exploring the intricacies of Wnt signaling. Other projects are focusing on the its implications in colorectal cancer. Through the ERC Synergy Grant DECODE, he is dissecting genetic networks in Drosophila, providing insights into cellular differentiation in complex tissues.