The Center of Biotechnology of the TU Dresden (BIOTEC) has been awarded the Humboldt Professorship for cellular machines. The renowned research award goes to the biophysicist Dr. Jochen Guck (38), who currently researchs in the Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge University (UK). This was announced today by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and the Federal Ministry for Education and Research. Jochen Guck receives a call to the Dresden University of Technology and will focus on the development of new biophysical approaches for stem cell research, blood cell diagnostics and neuroregeneration. The award is endowed with five million Euro for five years.

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Birte Urban-Eicheler,
Press office BIOTEC
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Birte Urban-Eicheler
October 12, 2011