Professor Wolfgang Heckl has been newly appointed as a supervisory board member
of MagForce Nanotechnologies
AG (FWB:MF6), following the election of Dr. Peter Heinrich, until now deputy
chairman of the supervisory board, as the new chief executive officer of MagForce
effective January 1, 2010.
Professor Heckl is considered one of the world's leading experts in the field
of nanotechnology. His commitment to ongoing research in nanotechnology from
its very early stages and to building public awareness of this groundbreaking
technology were recognized in 2004, when he received the European Union's Descartes
Prize for Science Communication. Dr. Heckl was named professor of experimental
physics at the Ludwig Maximilian University (LMU) in Munich in 1993, and has
been general director of Germany's largest science museum, Munich's renowned
Deutsches Museum, since 2004. Since 2009 he has additionally held the Oskar
von Miller Professorship in Scientific Communication at the Technical University
of Munich (TU Munchen). He is involved in various scientific associations, including
the Excellence Network NanoBioTechnology, as well as centers of scientific excellence
such as the Center for NanoScience and the GeoBioCenter at the LMU in Munich.
"We are extremely pleased that Professor Heckl, who already in the past
has served as a supervisory board member of MagForce Nanotechnologies AG, has
declared his readiness to once again provide his active support and scientific
expertise to MagForce," said Professor Walter Rust, chairman of the company's
supervisory board. "Particularly in the further scientific development
of its nanotechnology-based cancer therapy, MagForce will benefit from his close
involvement."