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Katja Becker (born 7 March 1965 in Heidelberg, Germany, also known as Katja Becker-Brandenburg in some older publications) is a German physician and biochemist. From 2009 to 2012 she was the vice president for research at Justus Liebig University in Giessen, Germany. Since 2014 she has served as a vice president of the German Research Foundation, and since 2015 as a German representative on the scientific committee of the European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST).
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- Life
- Memberships and Awards
- Books
- Journal Articles
- References
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Life
Katja Becker studied medicine at Ruprecht Karls University in Heidelberg, Germany, from 1984 to 1991. In 1988 she received her doctorate under the tutelage of R. Heiner Schirmer. The topic of her dissertation was "Glutathione reductase and its apoenzyme: contributions to malaria chemotherapy and to diagnosing FAD deficiencies" (German: Glutathionreduktase und ihr Apoenzym: Beiträge zur Chemotherapie der Malaria und zur Diagnostik von FAD-Mangelzuständen). She completed her university professor qualification (German: Habilitation) in 1996 in the field of biochemistry at the medical faculty of the University of Heidelberg. After completing her medical residency at John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford and the University Hospital of Basel, she gained clinical and research experience in Nigeria and Ghana and worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Sydney. She qualified as a medical specialist in biochemistry at Heidelberg University in 1998.
She subsequently worked as a senior research fellow at the Biochemistry Center of Heidelberg University. In 1999 Julius Maximilians University in Würzburg appointed her to an associate professorship in the Research Center for Infectious Diseases (German: Zentrum für Infektionsforschung).
In 2000, Justus Liebig University in Giessen, Germany, appointed her to a full professorship in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the Interdisciplinary Research Center (German: Interdisziplinäres Forschungszentrum für biowissenschaftliche Grundlagen der Umweltsicherung (IFZ)). Most of her research focus is on the role of oxidative stress and antioxidative protective mechanisms during disease development and on developing new drugs to fight tumorous and infectious diseases, especially malaria.
Memberships and Awards
Katja Becker is a member of several scientific and political advisory boards, works as an expert reviewer, and organizes academic conferences. For her research and teaching activities, she has won multiple awards. In 1989 the Southwest German Society of Internal Medicine awarded her the Ludolf Krehl Prize for her dissertation. In autumn 2003 she received the Carus Medal of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina). From 2000-2005, Becker was a member of the Junge Akademie, part of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and the Leopoldina Academy. Since June 2009 she has been a full member of the Leopoldina Academy, one of its youngest so far. Since 2014 she has been vice president of the German Research Foundation.
On 21 October 2009 she became the first woman ever to be elected to the vice presidency of the University of Giessen, serving her three-year term from 1 November 2009 to 31 October 2012.
In March 2010 she received the Rudolf Leuckart Medal of the German Society for Parasitology for her work on energy metabolism in pathogenic parasites such as the malaria pathogen