Gunter Muller is senior scientist for Biochemistry at Aventis Pharma Germany, Frankfurt am Main, and honorary lecturer for genetics at the University of Munich. He was born in Peissenberg (Germany) and studied anthropology, zoology, genetics and biochemistry at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich, finishing his PhD thesis under the supervision of R. Zimmermann in 1987. After post-doctoral fellowships at the universities of Ulm and Heidelberg, he joined the pharmaceutical industry in 1990 and received his habilitation at the University of Munich in 1996. He is interested in molecular me...