Matthias Hentze MD

Matthias Hentze attended Munster University Medical School, Germany, and also studied at Medical Schools in the United Kingdom (Oxford, Cambridge, Glasgow, Southampton). After completing his medical qualification and an M.D. in Biochemistry (Munster), Matthias carried out postdoctoral research at the National Institutes of Health (Bethesda, Maryland, USA), before joining EMBL Heidelberg as a Group Leader in 1989. He obtained the Habilitation from Heidelberg University in 1990 and became Professor for Molecular Medicine in 2005. Matthias served as the Dean of Graduate Studies from 1996 until being promoted to the position as EMBL Associate Director in July 2005. In 2013 he was appointed as EMBL Director.