Professor Jens Reich Turns 70
Professor
Reich, born in Göttingen in 1939, has worked in Berlin-Buch since 1968. From
1992 until his retirement in 2004 he was research group leader in medical
genome research in MDC and from 1998 until 2004 C4 professor of bioinformatics at
Humboldt UniversityBerlin.
In the
1980s Professor Reich was very active in the civil rights movement in the GDR and
in 1989⁄90 was one of the founders of the “New Forum”. In 1991 he received the
Theodor Heuss Prize, in 1993 the Anna Krüger Prize – awarded for the first time
– with which he was honored for his “good and understandable scholarly language”.
In 1994 he was an independent candidate for the office of President of the
Federal Republic of Germany.
In 1996 he
was awarded the Lorenz Oken Medal of the Society of German Natural Scientists
and Medical Doctors for his “outstanding and manifold contributions, orally and
in writing, to developments in gene research”.
In 1998 he
received the Urania Medal of the Berlin
society with the same name dedicated to scientific education. In 2000 he was
awarded the National Prize of the German National Foundation.
In 2001 the
cabinet of the German Federal Government appointed him as member of the newly
founded National Ethics Council. In 2005 he was reappointed to this body, this
time as vice-chairman. In 2008 Professor Norbert Lammert, president of the
German Parliament, appointed him to the German Ethics Council, the successor
organization of the National Ethics Council.
Professor
Reich has over 70 scientific publications to his credit and has also written
numerous essays on gene research for the general press. Moreover, he is the
author of many books, including Rückkehr
nach Europa [Return to Europe] (1991), Abschied von den Lebenslügen [Farewell
to the Life-Lies] (1992) and Es wird ein
Mensch gemacht – Möglichkeiten und Grenzen der Gentechnik [A Human Being Is
Made – Possibilities and Limitations of Gene Technology] (2003).
Professor Jens Reich Turns 70 (Photo: David Ausserhofer/Copyright: MDC)
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