About the conference

The Blankenese Conference series was initiated in 1979 by the late Gebhard Koch and Dietmar Richter, eminent biochemists/molecular biologists at the University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE). Since then, the meetings have been organized whenever possible on a yearly basis. In 2004 Gebhard Koch retired as a chair and until 2023 Wolfgang Meyerhof from the German Institute of Human Nutrition in Potsdam replaced him as co-chair of the Blankenese Conferences. In 2019 Eckart Gundelfinger from the Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology in Magdeburg accepted the invitation to serve as additional chairperson helping to organize the Conferences in the years to come.