Klaus Mosbach

Klaus Hermann Mosbach (26 November 1932 – 22 January 2024) was a Swedish applied biochemist based at Lund University. He founded the Center for Molecular Imprinting in Lund, Sweden and was co-founder of the Institute of biotechnology at ETH Zurich Switzerland 1982. He was a great visionary who gave shape to the modern era of Molecular imprinting for which he was awarded the plaque at the international meeting of molecular imprinting in 2010 in New Orleans, United States.

Biography

Died 2024, Malmö, Sweden

Gold medalist of Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences.

He was a great visionary who gave shape to the modern era of Molecular imprinting for which he has been awarded the plaque at the international meeting of molecular imprinting in 2010 in New Orleans, United States of America. Family status: Married to May E., three daughters (Petra, Katja, Vanja). He was then awarded the Waksman-Merck post-doctoral fellowship and stayed for 1.5 years at the Institute of Microbiology, Rutgers University, N.J., USA... 1967 Humboldt assistant professorship stipend at the Max-Planck Institute, Munich, Germany. A number of highly recognized scientists emerged from this pool, including the following professors C. Borrebaeck (in part), B.Sellergren (who is now a professor in Germany). P. Brodelius, Leif Bulow, B. Danielsson, B. Hahn-Hägerdahl (in part), A.C. Koch. Schmidt, P.O. Larsson, C. F. Mandenius, B. Mattiasson, M.O. Månsson, I.A. Nicholls (starting as post doc), R. Ohlsson (in part), Lei Ye and S. Olsson working all in Sweden. To this a number of Professors working in other countries outside Sweden including, L.Fischer, K. Haupt, C.Lowe, H.Zhang, Deepak Chandrasekaran.

Mosbach collaborated with numerous companies over the years, including Biogen and later Hybritech, Eli Lilly, Igen, Hofman la Roche and was involved in the formation of start-up companies by himself likewise former students of him have been successful in starting up companies like B.Ekberg, N.Siegbahn, Kurt Nilsson, Kjell Nilsson, Dariao Kriz.

Selected awards From 1981 member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO). From 1982 honorary member of the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. From 1985 member of the Protein Society, USA. 1985 he was awarded two highly esteemed international scientific prizes given every second year, covering different major areas in biotechnology/biochemistry) as listed below: In Enzyme Engineering by the Engineering Foundation, New York, USA, "in recognition of outstanding contributions to the field of enzyme engineering". In 1990 he was awarded the gold medal of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences for his contribution to biotechnology, especially on the immobilization of bioactive substances. Mosbach published more than 537 peer reviewed scientific articles and reviews with an H-Index of 77. Mosbach wrote and edited four volumes of methods in enzymology series on Immobilized Enzymes, by Academic press (44,132,133,134). In addition he has received and applied for 84 patents.