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Rüdiger Horstkorte

FULL PROFESSOR

Dr. Rüdiger Horstkorte is Professor for Physiological Chemistry and Vice-Dean at the Medical School of the Martin-Luther-University in Halle. 

Dr.  Horstkorte graduated (Diploma) in Biology at the University of Heidelberg (Germany). He received his doctoral degree in 1993 from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zürich (Switzerland). In 1994 he was an EMBO-Fellow at Clinical Research Centre of the MRC in London (Great Britain). From London, he moved back to Germany and was working for many years at the Charité in Berlin (Germany). During this time, he generated the first GNE knockout mouse in the lab of Prof. Reutter. In 2006 he accepted a full professorship (Professor for Physiological Chemistry) at the Medical Faculty of the Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg.



He is the former spokesperson of the German Glycobiology Section of the German Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (GBM) and is the German national representative of the International Glycoconjugate Organization (IGO).

His main research and academic fields of interests are: Sialic acids and posttranslational modifications, GNE myopathy, cell adhesion molecules and molecular aging.



Role in ProDGNE

The Horstkorte lab is responsible for analysing  the effect of prodrugs on sialyation and GNE enzyme activity.