Wolfram Saenger is a German biochemist and protein crystallographer. In his research career spanning over 30 years he has worked at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, the Georg August University of Göttingen, Harvard University (Harvard Medical School) and the Free University of Berlin, where he still heads the Institute for Crystallography. A recipient of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize (1988) of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, which is the highest honour awarded in German research, he is best known for his research on X-ray crystallography of membrane proteins and protein-DNA complexes. He has authored 10 books and numerous scientific articles.

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Research Group of Prof. Wolfram Saenger: http://userpage.chemie.fu-berlin.de/saenger/