- Theo Wallimann
Theo Wallimann, PhD, was a research group leader and Titular-Professor at the Institute of Cell Biology of the [http://www.ethz.ch/index_EN ETH Zurich] .
Born on
October 13 1946 inAlpnach [http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpnach] , county ofObwalden [http://www.ow.ch/e] Switzerland, he completed his PhD Dissertation on "The Localization and Energy-Shuttle Function of M-line-bound myofibrillar Creatine Kinase in Muscle" [ [http://e-collection.ethbib.ethz.ch/list.php?browse=author&author=Wallimann,%20Theo Browse By Author Name - Wallimann, Theo - ETH E-Collection ] ] at the [http://www.biol.ethz.ch/index_EN Biology Department] at [http://www.ethz.ch/index_EN ETH Zurich] in 1975 with distinction and was awarded the ETH price and medal.From 1975-1981, he worked as a post-doctoral research associate with Prof. Andrew G. Szent-Györgyi [http://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/WG/B/B/L/X/_/wgbblx.ocr] at the Biology Department of
Brandeis University in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A. on the subject of "myosin-linked calcium regulation of muscle contraction". In 1981, he was appointed by Prof. Hans M. Eppenberger as senior assistant at the [http://www.cell.biol.ethz.ch/about Institute of Cell Biology] of the ETH Zurich to work in the areas of muscle biochemistry and molecular physiology of creatine kinases for cellular bioenergetics.In 1984, he became a Lecturer (with Habilitation) and in 1994, he was awarded the Title of Professor.
Wallimann was Head of the Institute of Cell Biology in 1995.
He received the [http://www.swisseyeweek.ch/media/swisseyeweek/2008%20swiss%20eye%20week/schlussbericht%20thumm%20swiss%20eye%20week%2007.pdf Alfred Vogt Price 2005] .
Wallimann retired in May 2008 and is now an Emeritus.
His main areas of interest were and still are : - The structure, function, subcellular compartmentation and molecular physiology of
creatine kinase (CK) isoenzymes and the Creatine Transporter (CRT), and in general, micro-compartmentation and metabolite channeling by multi-enzyme complexes.- The mechanisms of the cell enhancing and neuro-protective effects ofCreatine Supplementation (creatine supplements ) in health (muscle strength, learning and memory) and disease (neuromuscular and neuro-degenerative disorders). - The structure and molecular physiology of AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK ), involved in cellular energy homeostasis and nutritional signalling, which is relevant fortype-2 diabetes ,obesity ,metabolic syndrome andcancer .References
* [http://e-collection.ethbib.ethz.ch/view/eth:21729]External links
* [http://www.cell.biol.ethz.ch/research/emeriti/wallimann/publications Publications of the Wallimann group]
* [http://icbxw.ethz.ch/creatine/creatine_supplementation.html Creatine supplementation]
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