Gunter Blobel

Born in Waltersdorf, Germany in 1936, Gunter Blobel is a cellular and molecular biologist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1999 for the discovery that proteins have intrinsic signals that govern their transport and localization in the cell. His research has led to a clearer understanding of human physiology and pathology. He currently serves as a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator and as a faculty member at Rockefeller University. He has also founded Friends of Dresden, an organization dedicated to restoring buildings in the German city of Dresden heavily damaged in World War II. Updated 2007