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CV of Prof. Dr. Silvia Arber

ORCID

0000-0002-6261-250X

Nationality: Swiss
Positions:
2015 – 2018 Deputy Director of the Biozentrum
Since 2008 Full Professor for Neurobiology/Cell Biology, Biozentrum, University of Basel, Basel
2004 – 2008 Associate Professor for Neurobiology/Cell Biology, Biozentrum, University of Basel, Basel
Since 2004 Senior Group Leader, Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Basel, Switzerland
2000 – 2004 Assistant Professor for Neurobiology/Cell Biology, Biozentrum, University of Basel, Basel
and Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Basel, Switzerland
1996 – 2000 Postdoctoral Fellow, Columbia University, HHMI, New York, USA
Education:
1995 PhD, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
1991 BSc, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Selected Awards & Honors:
2022 The brain prize 2022
2019 Lelio Orci Award 2019
2019 Grand Prix Charles-Léopold Mayer of the French Academy of Science
2019 Betty and David Koetser Memorial Prize 2019
2019 The Physiological Society Annual Review Prize Lecture 2019
2019 Fyssen Foundation International Prize 2018
2018 W. Alden Spencer Award
2018 FENS EJN Award 2018
2018 Pradel Research Award of the National Academy of Sciences
2017 Novartis VIVA Leading Scientist Award
2017 Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine
2016 ERC Advanced Grant
2015 Remedios Caro Almela Prize in Developmental Neurobiology
2014 City of Basel Science Award 2014
2014 Otto Naegeli Prize for Medical Research
2010 ERC Advanced Grant
2008 Friedrich Miescher Award
2005 Schellenberg Prize
2003 National Latsis Prize
2001 EMBO Young Investigator Award 2000
1999 Human Frontier Science Program Award for Young InvestigatorsHuman Frontier Science
Program Award for Young Investigators
1998 Swiss National Science Foundation Fellowship
1998 Pfizer Research Prize
1997 Best Thesis of the Year, Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of Basel
1996 Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP) Long-Term Fellowship
1996 E. Fisher Best Thesis Prize, Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Basel
1992 Swiss Foundation for Research on Muscle Diseases Fellowship
Selected Memberships:
Since 2020 Member of the US National Academy of Sciences
Since 2014 Member, American Association for the Advancement of Science
Since 2014 Member, Academia Europaea
Since 2005 EMBO Member
Since 2004 Member, Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences