Personal data record

• Name: Prof. Dr. Bert Sakmann
• Born: 12. Juni 1942 in Stuttgart, BRD
• Current working address: Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology
  Emeritus Group Bert Sakmann
  Am Klopferspitz 18
  82152 Martinsried
  Phone +49 89 8578 - 3695
  bsakmann@neuro.mpg.de

Education

• Physikum (Medicine): University of Tübingen, 1964
• State examination (Medicine): University of Munich, 1967
• Internship (Medicine): University Hospital, Munich (Surgery, Internal Medicine and Gynaecology), 1968 - 1970

Positions held

• 1969 - 1970: Research Assistant at the Max Planck Institute for Psychiatry Munich, Department of Neurophysiology (Prof. O.D. Creutzfeldt)
• 1971 - 1973: Britisch Council Fellow, Department of Biophysics, University College London (Prof B. Katz)
• 1974 - 1979: Research Assistant at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry Göttingen, Department of Neurobiology (Prof. O.D. Creutzfeldt)
• 1979 - 1982: Research Associate of the Membrane Biology Group at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry Göttingen
• 1983: Member of the Max Planck Society, Head of the Membrane Biology Unit
• 1985: Head of the Department of Cell Physiology at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry Göttingen
• 1989-2008: Head of the Department of Cell Physiology at the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research Heidelberg
• 2008-: Group Leader at the Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology in Martinsried

Academic Degrees

• 1974: Doctor of Medicine, Medical Faculty, University of Göttingen
• 1981: Privatdozent, Medical Faculty, University of Göttingen (Subject: Physiology and Neuropharmacology)
• 1987: Professor, Medical Faculty, University of Göttingen
• 1990: Professor, Medical Faculty, University of Heidelberg
• 1991: Professor, Biological Faculty, University of Heidelberg

Prizes and Awards

• 1977: Nernst Prize (Deutsche Bunsen - Gesellschaft für physikalische Chemie)
• 1979: Feldberg Prize (Feldberg Foundation, London)
• 1981: Magnes Award (Magnes Foundation, Jerusalem)
• 1983: Spencer Prize (Columbia University, New York)
• 1984: Adolf Fick Prize (University of Würzburg)
• 1984: Zottermann Prize (Swedish Physiological Society)
• 1986: Gross - Horwitz Prize (Columbia University, New York)
• 1986: Leibniz Prize (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft DFG)
• 1988: Louis Jeantet Prize (Louis Jeantet Foundation, Genf)
• 1989: Gairdner Prize (Gairdner Foundation, Toronto)
• 1990: Ernst Hellmut Vits Prize (University of Münster)
• 1991: Carus Medal (Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina, Halle)
• 1991: Harvey Prize (Technion, Haifa)
• 1991: Gerard Prize (Society for Neuroscience, Washington)
• 1991: Landesforschungspreis (Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kunst, Baden - Württemberg)
• 1991: Nobel Prize (Nobel Foundation, Stockholm)

Endowed Lectureships

• 1982: Naham Lecture (Yale University, New Haven, Conneticut)
• 1986: Harold Lamport Lecture I (Washington University, Seattle, Washington)
• 1986: Peter Hemmerich Lecture (University of Konstanz)
• 1989: Feodor Lynen Lecture (University of Miami, Florida)
• 1990: Sherrington Lecture (University of Liverpool, Great Britain)
• 1990: Galvani Lecture (Georgetown University, Washington DC)
• 1991: John R. Murlin Lecture (Rochester University, Rochester, New York)
• 1991: Einar Hille Lecture (Washington University, Seattle, Washington)
• 1992: Lamson Lecture (Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee)
• 1992: Dearden-Pindar-Stuart Lecture (University of California, Irvine, California)
• 1992: Feigan Lecture (Stanford University, Stanford, California)
• 1992: Erlanger-Gasser Lecture (Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri)
• 1993: Arthur Thompson Lecture (University of Birmingham, Great Britain)
• 1993: John M.. Brookhart Lecture (Oregon Health Sciences University, Portland, Oregon, Oregon)
• 1995: Servier Lecture in Neurological Sciences (University of Montreal, Kanada)
• 1996: Aschoff Lecture (University of Freiburg)
• 1996: Sharpey-Schafer Lecture (University of Edinburgh, Scotland)
• 1997: Beckmann Lecture (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
• 1997: Charles E. Smith Memorial Lecture (National Institute for Psychobiology, Tel Aviv)
• 1997: Sherrington Memorial Lecture (Royal Society of Medicine, London)
• 1998: Harold Lamport Lecture II (Washington University, Seattle, Washington)
• 1998: Dolan Boyd Pritchett Memorial Lecture (University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia)
• 1999: Dunham Lectures (Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts)
• 2001: Forbes Lecture (Grass Foundation, Braintree, Massachusetts)
• 2001: Mathieson Lecture (University of Melbourne, Australia)

Honorary Degrees

• Dr. hc. of the University of Alicante, Spain
• Dr. hc. of the University of Liverpool, Great Britain
• Dr. hc. of the University of Bordeaux, France
• Dr. hc. of the University of Munich
• Dr. hc. of the University of Colorado, Denver, Colorado
• Dr. hc. of the University College London, Great Britain
• Dr. hc. of the Weizmann - Institute, Rehovot, Israel
• Dr. hc. of the University of Melbourne, Australia
• Dr. hc. of the Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand

Academies

• Member of the Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina, Halle
• Member of the Münchner Akademie der Wissenschaften
• Member of the Göttinger Akademie der Wissenschaften
• Member of the Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften
• Member of the Orden Pour le Mérite
• Foreign Member of the National Academy of Sciences, Washington, USA
• Foreign Member of the Royal Society, London, Great Britain

Curriculum Vitae Prof. Dr. Bert Sakmann