Eberhard Neumann

Eberhard Neumann (born 17 June 1939) is a German biochemist and biophysicist associated with research on bioelectric phenomena in membranes and the use of electric pulses in biotechnology.

In 1980, Neumann and co-workers demonstrated electrically induced cell fusion (electrofusion) in Dictyostelium.

In a 1982 paper, Neumann and co-authors reported that brief high-field electric pulses increased DNA uptake in mouse cells, producing stable transformants, and proposed an "electroporation model" for membrane transport in strong electric fields.

He served as chair (Vorsitzender) of the German Biophysical Society (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Biophysik, DGfB). The DGfB is listed by the International Union for Pure and Applied Biophysics (IUPAB) as Germany’s adhering body and national society for biophysics.

Selected works Neumann, E.; Schaefer-Ridder, M.; Wang, Y.; Hofschneider, P. H. (1982). "Gene transfer into mouse lyoma cells by electroporation in high electric fields". The EMBO Journal. 1(7): 841–845. doi:10.1002/j.1460-2075.1982.tb01257.x. PMID 6329708. PMCID PMC553119. Neumann, E.; Kakorin, S.; Toensing, K. (1999). "Fundamentals of electroporative delivery of drugs and genes". Bioelectrochemistry and Bioenergetics. 48(1): 3–16. doi:10.1016/S0302-4598(99)00008-2. PMID 10228565. Neumann, E.; Kakorin, S. (2018). "Membrane electroporation: chemical thermodynamics and flux kinetics revisited and refined". European Biophysics Journal. 47(4): 373–387. doi:10.1007/s00249-018-1305-3. PMID 29737373.