Dr. Klaus Richter's (*1973) research area is the area of ​​cellular signal transduction and the influence of molecular chaperones. These interactions play a role in many diseases, for example in the activation of oncogenic kinases, in changes in gene expression, in the loss of the anchoring structure of muscle cells or in cellular protein aggregation, as occurs in neurodegenerative diseases. We develop fundamental connections to the interaction of these proteins in model systems such as C.elegans, yeast or mammalian cells. In this way, we want to understand how the clinical pictures develop and to what extent better regulation of the chaperone interaction could have a positive effect. Dr. Klaus Richter studied biochemistry at the University of Regensburg and received his doctorate at the Technical University of Munich. Here he devoted himself to the ATP hydrolysis of the chaperone Hsp90. This was followed by a time at Northwestern University Chicago. Here, Mr. Richter focused on the regulation of the heat shock response in the model organism C. elegans. Building on these results, Mr. Richter founded his junior research group at the Technical University of Munich.