Laureate on a mission
Eminent German biophysicist and Nobel prize-winner Erwin Neher believes traditional Chinese medicine has bright prospects, particularly in the Greater Bay Area - a region that could rival Silicon Valley as a world-class tech and innovation hub. He talks to Stephy Zhang in Macao.
Erwin Neher's biography
1963-66
Studied physics at the Technical University of Munich
1967
Obtained Master of Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison
1970
Obtained doctorate in physics from the Technical University of Munich
1972-82
Research associate at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry
1975-76
Research associate at Yale University
1983-2011
Director of the Membrane Biophysics Department at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry
1989
Fairchild Scholar at the California Institute of Technology
1991
Awarded the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine
2016
Appointed director of Dr Neher's Biophysics Laboratory for Innovative Drug Discovery at the Macau University of Science and Technology
2019
Became director of the Neher Neural Plasticity Nobel Prize Laboratory at the Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
2024
Received the Chinese Government Friendship Award
