Katja Becker

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Katja Becker

German Research Foundation (DFG)

Katja Becker is the President of the German Research Foundation (DFG). She studied medicine at Heidelberg University, where she also obtained her doctoral degree and habilitation. After a position at the Center for Infectious Diseases, Würzburg University, she accepted a chair in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Giessen University. Education and research led her to Africa, Australia, Switzerland, the UK and the US. Her research interests focus on cellular redox metabolism as a drug target in malaria parasites and cancer cells. Katja Becker is active in multiple scientific advisory boards and served as vice president at Giessen University. From 2014 to 2019, she was vice president of the DFG. Since 2021, Katja Becker is also Chair of the Governing Board of the Global Research Council (GRC).
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