Prof. Dr. Franz Hagn

Franz Hagn’s research explores how membrane proteins control the transport of metabolites and signals across biological membranes, a process fundamental to cell function and health. His lab investigates a range of disease-linked membrane proteins, including mitochondrial proteins, chloroplast transporters, and G-protein coupled receptors (GPCRs), as well as their interactions with partner proteins. These proteins are central to metabolism, signaling, and energy production, and their dysfunction is linked to diseases such as neurodegeneration, metabolic disorders, and cancer. Dr. Hagn combines structural biology, biophysical, and biochemical approaches to study protein structure, dynamics, and interactions. 

Franz Hagn earned his Dr. rer. nat. at Technische Universität München, completed postdoctoral research at Harvard Medical School. He joined Helmholtz Munich in 2015 as both, an Helmholtz Young Investigator group leader and Rudolf-Mössbauer Assistant Professor at TUM. Currently he is a groupl eader in membrane protein NMR at the Institute for Structural Biology and Associate Professor at the TUM School of Natural Sciences.