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Jens Claus Brüning

Director, Max Planck Institute for Metabolism Research · Germany

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Jens Claus Brüning is the CEO of Max Planck Institute for Metabolism Research. Brüning is based in Germany. Brüning was born in 1966 in Cologne.

Endocrinologist and geneticist who earned his doctorate in 1993 at the University of Cologne. Since 2012, he has been Director of the Max Planck Institute for Metabolism Research in Cologne and heads research on neuronal regulation of energy and glucose metabolism.

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Born
June 4, 1966 · Cologne
Citizenship
Germany
Awards
Ernst Jung Prize for Medicine, Ferdinand Bertram Prize, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize, Hansen Family Prize, Wilhelm Vaillant Prize

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