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Katrin Rittinger is a Principal Group Leader and Assistant Research Director at the Francis Crick Institute. She obtained her degree in Chemistry from the University of Heidelberg, Germany. Following her education, she completed her PhD at the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research under the supervision of Roger Goody, focusing on the characterization of nucleotide oligonucleotide-binding properties and the mechanism of action of HIV reverse transcriptase and non-nucleoside RT inhibitors. After a brief postdoctoral period at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Physiology in Dortmund, Germany, she joined the Medical Research Council National Institute for Medical Research in 1996. During her postdoctoral fellowship, she conducted structural characterization research on 14-3-3/ligand complexes and their role in regulating Rho family GTPases. In 2000, she established her own research group, which investigates various multi-protein assemblies that regulate aspects of signal transduction through biochemical and structural methods.
Francis Crick Institute • London, UK
Lead a research group focusing on multi-protein assemblies and signal transduction.
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