hyman@mpi-cbg.de

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Max Planck Institute of Molecular
Cell Biology and Genetics
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Anthony Hyman

Group Leader

Research Experience

since 1999

Director and Research Group Leader at the MPI-CBG

1998 – 1999

Visiting Senior Scientist, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany

1993 – 1997

Group leader, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany

1985 – 1987

Graduate student, Laboratory of Molecular Biology, MRC, Cambridge, England, "The establishment of division axes in early C.elegans embryos" Supervisor Dr. John White
Postdoctoral Research, University of California San Francisco, "The mechanism of chromosome movement studied in vitro", The laboratory of Prof T.J. Mitchison

1983

Honors student program, Roche Institute of Molecular Biology, Nutley, N.J.

01/1981 – 07/1981

Research Assistant, Department of Zoology, University College, London

Degrees Conferred

1984

BSc first class, Zoology, University College, London

1988

Ph.D., Molecular Cell Biology, King's College, Cambridge

2002

Professor of Molecular Cell Biology, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany

Scientific Honours and Memberships

2022

2023 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences together with Clifford Brangwynne

2022

Körber European Science Prize 2022

2021

Member of the Leopoldina National Academy of Sciences, Germany

2021

2021 HFSP Nakasone Award

2020

19th Annual Wiley Prize in Biomedical Sciences

2020

2020 NOMIS Distinguished Scientist and Scholar Award

2020

Member of the National Academy of Sciences, USA

2020

Wiley Prize in Biomedical Research

2019

Carl Zeiss lecture award

2017

Schleiden Medal from the Leopoldina

2014

Elected Member of Academia Europaea

2011

Leibniz Prize

2007

Fellow of the Royal Society

2003

EMBO Gold Medal

2002

Honorary Professor TUD Dresden

2000

EMBO member

1984

Award for highest final year examination mark, UCL Dpt. of Zoology.

Fellowships

1991 – 1994

Lucille P. Markey Senior Fellow

1990

American Cancer Society Fellow

1988 – 1990

Lucille P. Markey Visiting Fellow