Welcome to new NCMM Assistant Director, Hartmut Luecke

NCMM is delighted to welcome Professor Hartmut Luecke as the centre’s new Assistant Director. 

Photo of Hartmut Luecke

Professor Hartmut Luecke. Photo: Trond Isaksen

Professor Luecke is a structural biologist currently based at the University of California, Irvine, where he is Director of the Centre for Biomembrane Systems and a Professor of Biochemistry.

Research interests

Professor Luecke’s research interests include crystallographic and cryo-EM studies of membrane proteins, with work spanning from discovering how Helicobacter pylori survives at pH 1 in the stomach, to annexins, S100 proteins, RNA editing, p53, drug discovery, and chemical biology. He will therefore be an excellent addition to the structural biology community in Oslo.

A great addition to NCMM

Director of NCMM, Professor Kjetil Taskén, comments:

- I, and all of us here, are very pleased that Harmut Luecke will be joining NCMM soon. His research interests and expertise will be an excellent addition to our research groups, and we very much look forward to working with him more in the coming months.

His appointment means that there will be scope for plenty of exciting collaborations, both with our current Group Leaders, and within Oslo’s wider structural biology community.

Professor Luecke studied for his B.S. at Heidelberg University in Tiffin, Ohio, before obtaining his Ph.D. at Rice University in Houston, Texas. He is expected to start working with NCMM in November 2017, with a full presence at the centre from January 2018.  

By Annabel Darby
Published May 30, 2017 11:39 AM