Ernst-Ludwig Winnacker

Ernst-Ludwig Winnacker (born 26 July 1941 in Frankfurt[1]) is a German geneticist, biochemist and research manager.

His main fields of research are virus/cell interaction, the mechanisms of gene expression in higher cells and prion diseases.

From 1968 to 1972 he took a postdoctoral research position at the University of California, Berkeley, to work with Horace Barker, who discovered the active form of vitamin B12.

In 1998 he was elected President of the German Research Foundation (DFG), a position he held until the end of 2006.

In 2009 he became as successor of the nobel prize winner Torsten Wiesel Secretary General of the Human Frontier Science Program Organization.