Wolfram Bode

Wolfram Bode (8 March 1942 – 25 January 2025) was a German biochemist.

Wolfram Bode
Born	(1942-03-08)8 March 1942 Berlin, Germany
Died	25 January 2025(2025-01-25) (aged 82)
Nationality	German
Known for	Crystallography, Proteases
Scientific career
Fields	Biochemist
Institutions	Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry

Background

Born in Berlin, Bode was educated in chemistry and biochemistry at the University of Göttingen, the University of Tübingen and the University of Munich as a fellow of the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes. He obtained his Ph.D. in 1971 at the University of Munich for studies of the bacterial flagellum. From 1972 he worked at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry in Martinsried. Bode was associate professor at the University of Munich. He died on 25 January 2025, at the age of 82.^[1]

Career

During his graduate studies Bode was using x-ray scattering. After his Ph.D. he then joined the lab of Robert Huber to work with x-ray crystallography. In 1975 Bode published the structure of trypsin, which was among the first protease structures that could be solved. His following work on the structure and function of proteins has contributed significantly to the understanding of several important biological processes, especially coagulation, fibrinolysis and photosynthesis.