Dirk Görlich, born October 18, 1966, in Halle (Saale) of Germany, is a German biochemist.
[1] His research focuses on cellular logistics, the transport mechanism of proteins in cells between the nucleus and the cytoplasm.
In 2022, Görlich won the inaugural WLA Prize in Life Science or Medicine, “for key discoveries elucidating the mechanism and selectivity of protein transport between the cytoplasm and nucleus.”[3][4] Dirk Görlich went to the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (Halle/Saale) in 1985 and received his Master's Degree in Biochemistry here in 1989.
From 1996 to 2007, he worked as the research group leader at the Center for Molecular Biology at the University of Heidelberg.
[5] 1993 - Karl Lohmann Prize of German Society for Biological Chemistry 1994 - Falcon Prize of German Society for Cell Biology 1997 - EMBO Gold Medal of European Molecular Biology Organization 1997 - Elected member of EMBO 1997 - Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize of German Research Foundation 2001 - Alfried Krupp Sponsorship Award, Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach Foundation 2005 - Elected member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina 2018 - Animal Welfare Research Prize by German's Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture, together with Tino Pleiner,[6] 2022 - WLA Prize in Life Science or Medicine,[7] 2024 - Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine.