Fields Systems biology Academic advisors Karel van Dam | Name Hans Westerhoff | |
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Born Hans Victor Westerhoff
January 14, 1953 (age 71) ( 1953-01-14 ) Institutions University of Manchester
University of Amsterdam Alma mater University of Amsterdam (PhD) Thesis Mosaic non-equilibrium thermodynamics and (the control of) biological free-energy transduction (1983) Doctoral students Emily Armitage
Kathryn Blount
Aleida Geenen
Victoria Jackson
Edward Kent
Helen Kotze
Ettore Murabito
Robert Platt
Mark Quinton-Tulloch
Samrina Rehman
Mohammed Shahraz
Nicholas Shipillis
Yujiang Wang
Jie Yang
Nilgun Sahin
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Hans Victor Westerhoff (born 14 January 1953 in Amsterdam) is a Dutch biologist and biochemist who is professor of synthetic systems biology at the University of Amsterdam and AstraZeneca professor of systems biology at the University of Manchester. Currently he is a Chair of AstraZeneca and a director of the Manchester Centre for Integrative Systems Biology.
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Education
Westerhoff was educated at the University of Amsterdam where he was awarded a PhD in 1983 for investigations of non-equilibrium thermodynamics and the control of biological thermodynamics supervised by Karel van Dam.
Research
In March 1995 Westerhoff wrote about a discovery of magainin in the African clawed frog which helps it fight against bacterias which he discovered along with his colleagues. In December 1996 he and his group discovered a nitric-oxide reductase of Paracoccus denitrificans. In 2000 he and Martin Bier, along with Barbara Bakker discovered that yeast cells can oscillate and merge with others in some cases because they get energized from glycolysis. In 2013 he studied maps of human metabolism and came out with its biochemical map.