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German physicist and biochemist (born 1959)
Matthias Mann (born 10 October 1959) is a German physicist and biochemist. He is doing research in the area of
mass spectrometry and
proteomics .
Early life and education
Born in
Thuine ,
Lower Saxony , he studied mathematics and physics at the
University of Göttingen . He received his Ph.D. in 1988 at
Yale University where he worked in the group of
John Fenn , who was later awarded the
Nobel Prize in Chemistry .
Career
After a postdoctoral fellowship at the
University of Southern Denmark in
Odense , Mann became group leader at the
European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in
Heidelberg . Later he went back to Odense as a professor of bioinformatics. Since 2005 he has been a director at the
Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry in
Martinsried near
Munich . In addition, he became a principal investigator at the
Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein Research in
Copenhagen .
From his research group in Martinsried originated in 2016 PreOmics, a company commercializing sample prep sets, and EVOSEP, a company commercializing protein analysis equipment.
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His work has impact in various fields of mass spectrometry-based proteomics:
The
peptide sequence tag approach developed at the EMBL was one of the first methods for the identification of peptides based on mass spectra and genome data.
Nano-electrospray (an
electrospray technique with very low flow rates) was the first method that allowed femtomole sequencing of proteins from
polyacrylamide gels .
A recently developed metabolic labeling technique called
SILAC (stable isotope labeling with amino acids in cell culture) is widely used in
quantitative proteomics .
Other activities
PharmaFluidics, Member of the Advisory Board (since 2019)
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Awards and honors
1991: Malcom Award by the journal
Organic Mass Spectrometry
1996: Mattauch Herzog Prize in Mass Spectrometry
1997: Hewlett-Packard Prize for Strategic Research in Automation of Sample Preparation
1998: Edman Prize by the "Methods in Protein Structure Analysis" Society
1999: Bieman Medal for Outstanding Achievement in Mass Spectrometry (
American Society for Mass Spectrometry )
1999: Named second most cited scientist in chemistry in the years 1994 to 1996 by the Institute of Scientific Information
1999: Elected visiting professor
Harvard Medical School
1999: Elected to the
European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
2000:
Meyenburg Prize
2001: Bernhard and Matha Rasmussens Memorial award in Cancer Research
2001: Meyenburg Cancer Research Award given by the German Cancer Research Center
2001: Fresenius Prize and Medal for Analytical Chemistry given by the German Chemical Society
2004: Honorary Doctorate,
University of Utrecht , Netherlands
2004: Lundbeck Prize
2004: Novo-Nordisk Prize
2005: Anfinsen Award of the Protein Society
2006: "Biochemical Analysis" prize by the German Society for Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine
2008: HUPO Distinguished Achievement Award in Proteomic Science
2008: Bijvoet Medal of the
Bijvoet Center for Biomolecular Research of
Utrecht University
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2010: Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling-Prize by the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities
2012:
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize by
German Research Foundation
2012: Feodor Lynen Medal
2012:
Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine
2012:
Ernst Schering Prize
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2015: Theodor Bücher Lecture and Medal
2015: Danish Order of Dannebrog Knights Cross
2015: Barry L. Karger Medal in Bioanalytical Chemistry
2017: Lennart Philipson Award
2023: German Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology’s
Otto Warburg Medal
References
External links
International National Academics People