Andreas Plückthun

In December 2018, Plückthun spoke at the 'Antibody Engineering and Therapeutics' conference in San Diego, California.

He won a Young Investigator's Award of the German Chemical Industry Trust (Fonds der chemischen Industrie). In 2000, he received the Karl-Heinz-Beckurts Award (Munich, Germany). In 2002 he was given the J. P. Morgan Chase Health Award (San Jose, CA, USA), the Wilhelm-Exner Medal (Vienna, Austria) and The Jury's Grand Prix (European Grand Prix for Innovation, Monaco). Together with the other founders of Molecular Partners AG, he received the Swiss Technology Award and the De Vigier Award in 2005. In 2011 he was awarded a Senior Investigator Grant of the European Research Council. He is the recipient of the 2016 Christian B. Anfinsen Award.

Andreas Plückthun was born in Heidelberg (Germany) and is married to Ilse Pfitzinger, together they have one daughter. He studied chemistry at the University of Heidelberg. He received his PhD degree at the University of California at San Diego with Edward Dennis, the title of his dissertation being "The interfacial catalysis of phospholipase A2". He was a post-doctoral fellow at Harvard University with Jeremy Knowles, where he worked on the secretion process of beta-lactamase in Escherichia coli. In 1985, he became group leader at the Gene Center Munich, then located at the Max-Planck-Institute for Biochemistry in Martinsried (Germany). In 1993 he was appointed Full Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Zurich (Switzerland).

Andreas Plückthun (born May 7, 1956) is a scientist whose research is focused on the field of protein engineering. Andreas Plückthun is the director of the department of biochemistry at the University of Zurich. Plückthun was appointed to the faculty of the University of Zurich as a Full professor of biochemistry in 1993. Plückthun was group leader at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry , Germany (1985-1993). He was elected to the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) in 1992, and named a member of the German National Academy of Science (Leopoldina) in 2003. He is cofounder of the biotechnology companies Morphosys (Martinsried, Germany) Molecular Partners AG (Zürich-Schlieren, Switzerland) and G7 Therapeutics. (Zürich-Schlieren, Switzerland).