Rudi Balling

Rudi Balling (born 17 October 1953 in Daun, Rhineland-Palatinate) is a German geneticist. He is director of the Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine at the University of Luxembourg.

Following his abitur (1972) at the Geschwister-Scholl Gymnasium in Daun, Germany and military service, Rudi Balling studied Food Science from 1974 to 1980 at the University of Bonn, Germany and at the Washington State University in Pullman, USA. Afterwards Rudi Balling received his PhD (Dr. troph.) for his studies on embryotoxicology at the RWTH Aachen and at the NIEHS (NIH).

From 1984 to 1986 Rudi Balling researched imprinting mechanisms in developmental biology with Prof. Dr. Janet Rossant at the Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute at the Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto, Canada, one of the leading labs in that field. Afterwards he moved to the lab of Prof. Peter Gruss at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen, Germany where he was involved in clarifying morphogenetic mechanisms during development.