Prof. Volkmar Gieselmann Institut fur Physiologische Chemie, University of Bonn, Germany

Volkmar Gieselmann is Professor of Biochemistry in the Medical Faculty of the University of Bonn. He has a long-standing interest in lysosomal storage disorders, in particular in metachromatic leukodystrophy. He has cloned the defective gene in this disease, characterized the effects of a number of mutations on the biochemical level... read moreand generated an animal model. He is currently the chairman of the Institute of Physiological Chemistry.