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01. 12. 2020

Professor Andrea Musacchio Receives the 2020 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize

Professor Andrea Musacchio receives the 2020 Leibniz Prize of the German Research Foundation for his pioneering work in structural biology with a particular focus on the mechanisms of chromosome segregation in cell division. Musacchio has been Director of the Department of Cell Biology at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology in Dortmund, and since 2012 he has been an honorary professor at the University of Duisburg-Essen. More.


Andrea Musacchio
Andrea Musacchio
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