Katja Strässer

Education
2001 Ph.D. in Biochemistry, University of Heidelberg, Germany
1998 MS Biotechnology (Diplom), University of Braunschweig, Germany
Academic positions
2003-present Independent Group Leader, Gene Center and “Department of Biochemistry, LMU Munich, Germany
2001 - 2002
Postdoctoral Fellow in the lab of Prof. Ed Hurt, University of Heidelberg, Germany
1998 - 2001 Predoctoral Fellow in the lab of Prof. Ed Hurt, University of Heidelberg, Germany
1997 Research Student in the lab of Prof. Tom Hope, Salk Institute for Biological Studies, San Diego, CA, USA
1996 “ERASMUS” Research Student in the lab of Prof. Didier Picard, University of Geneva, Switzerland
1995 Research Student in the lab of Prof. Michael Boshart, Max-Planck-Institute of Biochemistry, Martinsried, Germany
Awards & honors
2010 Member of the Young Center of Advanced Studies (CASY), LMU, Germany
2009 Europe-Medal, Bavaria, Germany
2009 „Therese von Bayern-Preis“, LMU
2008 ERC Starting Grant
2007 “Habilitation” Award of the Dr. Klaus Römer-Stiftung, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, LMU
2004 EMBO Young Investigator Award
2002 BYK-Gulden Promotionspreis of the GBM (Gesellschaft für Biochemie und Molekularbiologie e.V.) for Ph.D. thesis