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Place of Birth: Nickenich, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
About Rüdiger Klein
- Rüdiger Klein (born March 24, 1958 in Nickenich) is a German neurobiologist.
- He is director at the Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology and head of the department Molecules - Signaling - Development. Rüdiger Klein studied biology at the universities of Marburg and Tübingen and at the Juniata College (USA).
- He gained his PhD at the University of Tübingen and worked as a post-doctoral researcher at the National Cancer Institute at Frederick (NCI-Frederick) (USA) and at the Bristol-Myers Squibb Pharmaceutical Research Institute (USA).
- Afterwards, he led a junior research group at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg.
- In 2001, he was appointed director at the Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology.
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