Elena Conti#
| Membership Number: | 3774 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2014 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.biochem.mpg.de/en/rd/conti |
Present and Previous Positions
- Since 2007 Honorary Professor at the Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich (Germany)
- Since 2006 Max Planck Director at the MPI for Biochemistry, Munich, Germany
- 1999 –2007 Group leader at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Heidelberg, Germany in the Structural and Computational Biology Unit.
Fields of Scholarship
- Structural biology
- Biochemistry
- RNA metabolism
- RNA-protein interactions
Honours and Awards
- 2014 Louis Jeantet Prize for Medicine
- 2011 Hans Krebs medal (FEBS)
- 2009 Elected Member of the German Academy of Sciences, Leopoldina
- 2009 Elected EMBO member
- 2009 Elected to the Board of Directors of the RNA Society (2009-2011)
- 2008 Gottfried Wilhem Leibniz Prize (shared with Elisa Izaurralde)
- 2007 FEBS Anniversary Award
- 2005 ELSO Early Career Award
