Curriculum Vitae
| Personal data | |
| Name: | Heinrich Betz |
| Date of birth: | September 20, 1944 |
| Place of birth: | Reutlingen, Germany |
| Nationality: | German |
| Education | |
| 1963 - 1971 | University of Tübingen and University of Munich |
| 1969 | Diploma (MSc) in Biochemistry, University of Tübingen |
| 1971 | Staatsexamen in Medicine and M.D., University of Tübingen |
| Professional Experience | |
| 1971 - 1972 | Medizinalassistent, University of Tübingen |
| 1972 - 1976 | Post-Doc in Biochemistry, University of Freiburg |
| 1976 - 1979 | Research Fellow of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft at the Molecular Neurobiology Unit, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France |
| 1977 | Habilitation at the University of Freiburg |
| 1979 - 1983 | Group leader at the Max Planck Institute for Psychiatry, Munich |
| 1983 - 1986 | Associate Professor (C3) for Neurobiology at the Center of Molecular Biology, University of Heidelberg, (ZMBH) |
| 1986 - 1990 | Full Professor (C4) for Molecular Neurobiology and Neuropharmacology at ZMBH, Heidelberg |
| 1990 - 2009 | Director of the Department of Neurochemistry at the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Frankfurt |
| Since 1993 | Adjunct Professor for Biochemistry, University of Frankfurt |
| Fellowships and Awards | |
| 1969 - 1971 | Pre-doctoral Fellowship (Volkswagen Foundation, Hannover) |
| 1975 | Goedecke Research Award (University of Freiburg) |
| 1976 - 1978 | Post-doctoral Fellowship (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Bonn) |
| 1978 - 1983 | Heisenberg-Fellowship (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Bonn) |
| 1983 | Carl-Duisberg Memorial Prize (Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker, Dortmund) |
| 1988 | Wilhelm-Feldberg Prize (Cambridge, U.K.) |
| 1988 | Gottfried-Wilhelm-Leibniz Award 1989 (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Bonn) |
| 1988 | Academia Europea |
| 1990 | Alexander-von-Humboldt Research Prize (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Grenoble, France) |
| 1992 | First C. Hirth Memorial Lecturer (University of Strasbourg, France) |
| 1996 | A. J. Carlson Memorial Lecturer (University of Chicago, USA) |
| 1998 | Neuronal Plasticity Prize (Fondation IPSEN Paris, shared with U. McMahan and G. Fischbach) |
| 2002 | Pfizer lecturer of the Society for Neuroscience (Orlando, Fla.) |
| 2008 | Nature Mentoring Life-Time Award Germany (Berlin) |
