Markus Grütter

Markus Grütter is Swiss and he studied biophysics at the Biocenter of the University of Basel in Switzerland. He extended his studies as a postdoctoral fellow in protein crystallography at the Institute of Molecular Biology of the University of Oregon in Eugene, USA. Markus Grütter then became director of a research unit for protein structure and computer-aided molecular modeling at Novartis Pharma in Basel. Markus Grütter joined the Department of Biochemistry of the University of Zurich as  Full Professor in 1997. In February 2009, he became Head of Department. He has also been director of the National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR) Structural Biology (since 2001) and of the EU program P-CUBE (Infrastructure for Protein Production Platforms), (since April 2009). In autumn term 2008, he took on the position of Vice Dean of Research and Planning of the Faculty of Medicine.
His research focuses on the relationship between structure and function in proteases, large protein complexes and membrane proteins, as well as on structure-based drug design for proteins with a defined role in diseases.

Markus Grütter is involved in the following lecture series: BCH 630 Protein Crystallography, BCH 305 Molekulare Medizin

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