Peter Baumann awarded Humboldt professorship

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Peter Baumann has been awarded the prestigious Alexander von Humboldt professorship, which will be realised through a joint appointment at Mainz University’s Faculty of Biology and as an Adjunct Director at IMB. Prof. Baumann is a leading specialist in the field of chromosome biology, genome stability and the regulation of telomerase, as well as other molecular cell-ageing processes. He is currentlyan Investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the Stowers Institute for Medical Research and a Professor at the University of Kansas Medical Center. For more information, read the press release in German <link http: www.uni-mainz.de presse external-link-new-window external link in new>here and English <link https: www.uni-mainz.de presse external-link-new-window external link in new>here, and from the Alexander von Humboldt foundation (<link https: www.humboldt-foundation.de web pressemitteilung-2016-27.html external-link-new-window external link in new>German and <link https: www.humboldt-foundation.de web press-release-2016-27.html external-link-new-window external link in new>English).