Klaus Cichutek PhD

Prof. Cichutek is a biochemist and extra-ordinary Professor of Biochemistry at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University of Frankfurt/Main, Germany. After he obtained his Ph.D. in biochemistry in 1984, he was granted a fellowship by the DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgesellschaft, German Research Society) and the University of California in Berkeley, U.S.A. where he worked as a postdoctoral scientist from 1985 to 1988. Since 1988 Prof. Cichutek has been working at the Paul-Ehrlich-Institut as a scientist. From 1988 to 1994 he was the head of the 'Molecular Biology' Research Group followed by his nomination as head of the Medical Biotechnology Division in 1994 which he directed until 2011.