Prof. Dr. Walter Birchmeier

curriculum vitae

Walter Birchmeier is a graduate in biology of Zürich University (1973). After postdoctoral years at Cornell University Ithaca, the Biocenter Basel, and the University of California at San Diego, he became laboratory head at the Max-Planck-Institute Tübingen (1982) and Full Professor at the University of Essen Medical School (1988). He joined the Max-Delbrück-Center for Molecular Medicine in Berlin in 1993. He was Director of the Max-Delbrück-Center from 04/2004 to 12/2008 and is Professor at the Charité/Humboldt University Berlin. His major research interests have been the role of cell adhesion and signal transduction in development and tumor progression.