Wolfram Saenger

Wolfram Saenger is a German biochemist and protein crystallographer. In his research career spanning over 30 years he has worked at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, the Georg August University of Göttingen, Harvard University (Harvard Medical School) and the Free University of Berlin, where he still heads the Institute for Crystallography. His cutting-edge research on X-ray crystallography of membrane proteins and structural studies of protein-DNA complexes has won him several national and international accolades including the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize (1988) of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, which is the highest honour awarded in German research. He has authored 10 books and numerous scientific articles.

Links:
Research Group of Prof. Wolfram Saenger: http://userpage.chemie.fu-berlin.de/saenger/