Karl Lenhard Rudolph

Karl Lenhard Rudolph is Director of the Leibniz-Institute for Age Research – Fritz Lipmann Institute e.V. (FLI), Jena, Germany. After his studies in medicine and biology at Georg August University Göttingen, Karl Lenhard Rudolph spent a postdoctoral period at the Albert Einstein College in New York and the Dana Faber Cancer Institute in Boston.

In 2001, he obtained an Emmy Noether fellowship to establish his own research group at Hannover Medical School. In 2006, he received a Heisenberg professorship. In 2009, he was awarded the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize for his groundbreaking work on Telomeres.