Roger S. Goody

Roger Sidney Goody

Career and research

After his PhD, Goody was appointed a

Goody has combined chemistry, structural biology and kinetics to make major contributions in several fields of biology. He pioneered the use of nucleotide analogs, synthesized at the beginning of his career, in muscle research and later for Ras-family GTPases, leading to the first ever structure determination of an unstable protein-substrate complex (Ras:GTP). Innovative use of semi-synthetic proteins led to an understanding of transport mechanisms of Rab GTPases and to resolution of a longstanding controversy concerning targeting of these proteins to membranes. His group discovered and characterized hitherto unrecognized covalent modifications of Rab proteins by bacteria.

Honours, awards and memberships

From 2013 to 2015, Goody was President of the German Society for Biochemistry and molecular Biology (GBM).^[5] In 2018 he was elected Fellow of the Royal Society.

• President of the German Society of Biochemistry and molecular Biology
• German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (since 2003)^[6]
• Max Bergman Society^{[citation needed]}
• Awarded membership of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)^[7]
• Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the
  Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine
  (MDC) Berlin Buch
• Chairman of the Study Section for Biochemistry, Biophysics and Structural Biology of the
  Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
  (German National Research Organization) - 2000-2009
• 1991: Max Planck Prize^{[citation needed]}
• 2003:
  German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina^[8]
• 2008: Max Bergmann Medal[9]
• 2012: Astbury Lecture - Astbury Society, Leeds^{[citation needed]}
• 2012: Xu Guangqi Lecture, CAS-Max-Planck Partner Institute, Shanghai China
• 2015:
  Feldberg Prize^[10]
• 2018: Elected Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS)^[11]

Personal life

Goody is married to the biologist Dr. Waltraud Hofmann-Goody and has two children.^{[citation needed]}

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