Friedrich Miescher Laboratory of the Max Planck Society
The Friedrich Miescher Laboratory (FML) of the Max Planck Society was founded in 1969 to offer highly qualified junior scientists in the area of biology an opportunity to establish independent research groups and pursue their own line of research within a five-year period (extensions possible). The group leaders are elected by a committee of scientists from diverse areas and institutions on the basis of a public tendering procedure. While at the FML, they can use modern, well-equipped laboratories and work in teams tailored to their ideas. The laboratory is not headed by a director. Instead, the group leaders take turns in representing the FML, and its administrative and organizational interests. Furthermore, all group leaders jointly manage the funds available to the laboratory.
There is no specification as to which kind of biological research should be conducted at the FML, and the focus of research changes with the appointment of each new group leader. In the past, research interests have included developmental biology, neurobiology, cell biology, psychology and many other areas of modern biology.
Former Group Leaders
| Anne Spang | Biozentrum, University of Basel, Switzerland |
| Gudrun Schwarzer | University of Giessen, Germany |
| Andreas Mayer | University of Lausanne, Switzerland |
| Christoph Schuster | University of Heidelberg, Germany |
| Ralph Rupp | Adolf Butenandt Institute, University of Munich, Germany |
| Alexander Borst | Max Planck Institute for Neurobiology, Martinsried, Germany |
| Martin Bähler | University of Münster, Germany |
| Christian Lehner | University of Bayreuth, Germany |
| Stefan Jentsch | Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Martinsried, Germany |
| Jürgen Bolz | University of Jena, Germany |
| Claudia Stürmer | University of Konstanz, Germany |
| Peter Ekblom | University of Uppsala, Sweden |
| Walter Birchmeier | Max Delbrück Center, Berlin, Germany |
| Rolf Kemler | Max Planck Institute for Immunobiology, Freiburg, Germany |
| Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard | Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Tübingen, Germany |
| Matthias Wabl | University of California, San Francisco, USA |
| Heinz Wässle | Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Frankfurt, Germany |
| Wilfried Seifert | |
| Reinhard Kurth | Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany |
| Wolfgang Hennig | Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, China |
| Dieter Oesterhelt | Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Martinsried, Germany |
| Günter Gerisch | Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Martinsried, Germany |
| Uli Schwarz | Shanghai Institute for Advanced Studies, China |
| Rolf Knippers | University of Konstanz, Germany |
| Friedrich Bonhoeffer | Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Tübingen, Germany |