There are three German and three English members of the Foundation’s Board of Directors, and two Managing Trustees, one of whom must be a resident of Hamburg. The Directors each serve for a term of eight years (four biennial meetings).
Board
German side
Professor Dr.Ed C. Hurt
Vice-chairman
- Professor Heidelberg University, Center of Biochemistry
Professor Dr.Rohini Kuner
- Pharmacology and Toxicology Internal Senior Fellow Department of Pharmacology, Heidelberg
Professor Dr.Stefan Offermanns
- Director and Scientific Member Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research
British side
ProfessorRichard Morris CBE FRS
Chairman
- Professor of Neuroscience Centre for Cognitive and Neural Systems, University of Edinburgh
Professor Russell Foster, CBE, FRS
- Director of the Sleep and Circadian Neuroscience Institute Oxford University
- Head of the Nuffield Laboratory of Ophthalmology Oxford University
DrBrigitta Stockinger FRS
- Senior Group Leader Francis Crick Institute
Managing Trustees
Peter Turner
- Foundation Secretariat and Managing Trustee Feldberg Foundation
contact@feldbergfoundation
Kirsten Schinkel
- Managing Trustee Feldberg Foundation
schinkel@stb-kirstenschinkel.de
Former board members
German side
- Prof Klaus Aktories
- Professor Ulrich Hartl
- Professor Dr Franz Hofmann
- Professor Dr Reinhardt Luehrmann
- Professor W Neupert
- Professor Dr B Sakmann
- Professor Dr H-D Klenk
- Professor Dr K Starke
- Professor Dr W Stoffel
- Professor Dr H zur Hausen
- Professor U Trendelenburg
- Professor E Habermann
- Professor P W Jungblut
- Professor R Stampfli
- Professor H Herken
- Professor O Westphal
- Professor K J Ullrich
- Professor P Holtz
- Professor F Lynen
- Professor H Weber
- Professor W Bargmann
- Professor H Schaefer
British side
- Prof Dame Frances Ashcroft
- Professor Robin Lovell-Badge, FRS
- Professor Tim Bliss, FRS
- Professor Stephen Franks
- Professor Guy Dodson FRS
- Professor G L Collingridge
- Professor D Barker
- Sir John Skehel
- Professor D Colquhoun
- Professor P B Garland
- Dr L L Iversen
- Sir Dai Rees
- Dr J R Tata
- Sir James Gowans
- Sir Arnold Burgen
- Professor W S Peart
- Dr S G Owen
- Professor R A Gregory
- Professor A Neuberger
- Sir John Gray
- Professor A Huxley
- Professor G W Harris
- Professor D Whitteridge
- Professor A L Hodgkin
- Professor Sir Lindor Brown
- Sir Harold Himsworth
Peter Turner
- Foundation Secretariat and Managing Trustee Feldberg Foundation
Biography
Peter worked for the Medical Research Council in various roles both in Cambridge and London from 1970 until 2010.
He has been running the secretariat function of the Feldberg Foundation since 2002 and also became a Managing Trustee in 2012.
Dr Brigitta Stockinger FRS
Prizewinner for 2014
- Senior Group Leader Francis Crick Institute
Lecture details
Gitta Stockinger, NIMR, MRC London lectured at Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Berlin on 25th April 2014 also in Munich on 24th July 2014 and then at MPI, Dept Immunobiology and Epigenetics, Freiburg on October 3rd 2014.
Biography
Gitta obtained her PhD in Biology at the University of Mainz and then did postdoctoral studies in London and Cambridge, followed by a postdoc at the Cancer Research Institute in Heidelberg. In 1985 she became a member of the Basel Institute for Immunology where she stayed until 1991.
In 1991 Gitta became a group leader in the Division of Molecular Immunology of the Medical Research Council National Institute for Medical Research (now part of the Francis Crick Institute) and Head of Division in 2010.
Her research interests over time included immune tolerance using T cell receptor transgenic mouse models and immunological memory focusing on CD4 memory T cells, their generation and survival.
Gitta’s lab got involved in infection and inflammation research following their discovery of the differentiation factors for Th17 generation. More recently they discovered the importance of the transcription factor aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AHR), an environmental sensor, in the immune system and beyond.
Gitta obtained an ERC Advanced Investigator grant in 2009 to study physiological functions of AHR and in 2013 was awarded a Wellcome Senior Investigator Grant to expand the investigation of AHR in innate and adaptive immune cells. She obtained a CRUK grant in 2015 to study the role of AHR in intestinal tumorigenesis and a Wellcome Investigator Grant in 2018 to focus on AHR influences in the intestinal environment.
She became a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences in 2005, an EMBO fellow in 2008 and a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2013.
Professor Russell Foster, CBE, FRS
- Director of the Sleep and Circadian Neuroscience Institute Oxford University
- Head of the Nuffield Laboratory of Ophthalmology Oxford University
Biography
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Professor Dr. Stefan Offermanns
- Director and Scientific Member Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research
Biography
After finishing his medical studies, Stefan Offermanns carried out his postdoctoral work at the Free University Berlin and at the California Institute of Technology. From 2000 to 2009, he held the Chair of Pharmacology at the University of Heidelberg. He has been Director at the Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research and Professor at the Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany, since 2008.
He has combined basic science with clinically oriented research to study the role of various receptor systems and downstream signalling mechanisms in the cardiovascular and metabolic systems, as well as in cancer.
Professor Richard Morris CBE FRS
Prizewinner for 2006
- Professor of Neuroscience Centre for Cognitive and Neural Systems, University of Edinburgh
Lecture details
University of Edinburgh who lectured in Magdeburg and presented his prize lecture in Munich at the Max Plank Institute early in 2007. Professor Neupert attended this lecture and presented the prize.
Biography
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Professor Dr. Rohini Kuner
- Pharmacology and Toxicology Internal Senior Fellow Department of Pharmacology, Heidelberg
Biography
We aim at understanding molecular mechanisms underlying chronic pain resulting from long-lasting inflammation or cancer. A major focus is laid on addressing signalling mechanisms which underlie activity-dependent changes in primary sensory neurons transmitting pain (nociceptors) and their synapses in the spinal dorsal horn. Our current work spans molecular, genetic, behavioural, electrophysiological and imaging approaches in vitro as well as in vivo in rodent models of pathological pain.
Professor Dr. Ed C. Hurt
Prizewinner for 2007
- Professor Heidelberg University, Center of Biochemistry
Lecture details
Biochemie-Zentrum Heidelberg (BZH), Universität Heidelberg, who presented his prize lecture at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell Biology, Edinburgh and also lectured at The MRC Centre in Cambridge. Professor Dodson attended the lecture in Cambridge.
Biography
For the past 30 years Ed Hurt and his team members have conducted research on the structural and functional analysis of the yeast nuclear pore complex and the mechanism of nuclear transport. This work has also involved investigation of other cell machines, especially those that assemble and export mRNAs and ribosomal subunits.
Based on the genetic, biochemical and structural methods, we could dissect the yeast nuclear pore complex, followed by the identification and characterization of the primary nuclear mRNA export receptor and defining how it is coupled to transcription and chromatin modifying machineries. The other major research lead to the the dissection of the complicated biogenesis and export pathway of ribosomal subunits with identification of a series of ribosomal assembly mediates including their structural analysis by electron microscopy.
Overall this work has given insight into the structure and function of macromolecular machines that are composed of a large number of subunits and transiently interacting biogenesis factors.