birth_place awards fields workplaces birth_date residence article_title name alma_mater
laslea , romania gottfried wilhelm leibniz prize neurobiology university of heidelberg 3 october 1957 germany hannah monyer
 prof. dr. hannah monyer university of heidelberg
hannah monyer

hannah monyer -lrb- born 3 october 1957 in laslea , romania -rrb- is a romanian-born -lrb- transylvanian saxon -rrb- german neurobiologist and , since 1999 , she has been director of the department of clinical neurology at the university hospital in heidelberg .
in 2004 she was awarded the 1.55 million euro gottfried wilhelm leibniz prize .
she received the philip morris research prize -- described by bio-pro as `` one of the most prestigious science awards in germany '' -- in 2006 .
in 2010 , the european research council awarded her a total of 1.87 million euros for her research .
her research has examined the composition of nmda receptors and their expression patterns in brain cell populations .
nmda receptors are relevant to synaptic plasticity and ultimately to the brain 's capacity to remember and learn .
she has also shown that there are different kinds of glutamate receptor , studied various neurological disorders , and the modulation of gamma-aminobutyric acid interneurones in a genetic paradigm .
she developed the new techniques in molecular analysis that underlie her work .
monyer is an associate editor of `` frontiers in molecular neuroscience '' , published by the university of heidelberg , and a member of the senate of the deutsches zentrum für neurodegenerative erkrankungen -lrb- `` german centre for neurodegenerative diseases '' . -rrb-
after receiving her md in 1983 , monyer did postdoctoral work at stanford university medical centre .
she returned to heidelberg in 1989 , where she received a schilling endowment professorship before setting up her own research group .
the `` siebenbürgische zeitung '' -lrb- `` transylvanian newspaper '' -rrb- describes her as `` multilingual and highly musical '' , mentioning her proficiency with the piano and her ability to speak to most of her multinational employees in their own language .
