Susan Gasser#
| Membership Number: | 1804 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 1998 |
| Main Country of Residence: | SWITZERLAND |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.fmi.ch/research/groupleader/website/gasserlab |
Present and Previous Positions
- Since 2021 Director, Fondation ISREC
- Since 2005 University of Basel, Full Professor in Molecular Biology
- Since 2004 Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Director
- 2001 - 2004 University of Geneva, Full Professor, Department of Molecular Biology
- 1986 - 2001 Swiss Inst for Experimental Cancer Research (ISREC; Junior then senior group leader)
- 1983 - 1986 Univ. of Geneva, Maître assistante, Dept. of Mol. Biology (U. Laemmli)
- 1982 Ph.D., University of Basel, Dept. of Biochemistry (G. Schatz)
- 1979 B.A. with Honors in Biological Sciences (Biophysics) University of Chicago
Fields of Scholarship
- RecQ helicases
- Replication checkpoint kinases
- Epigenetics
- Nuclear envelope
- Heritable gene repression in yeast
- DNA repair pathways
- Gene positioning in differentiation and degenerative disease
- Live fluorescence microscopy
- Nuclear organization
- Telomeres
- Chromatin dynamics
Honours and Awards
- 1991 National Latsis Prize (Swiss)
- 1993 Election to EMBO
- 1994 Friedrich Miescher Prize (Swiss)
- 1998 Election to Academia Europaea
- 1999 Medal of Honor from the 3rd Medical Faculty of Charles University (Prague)
- 2005 Member of the Académie de France, Institut de science
- 2006 Otto Naegeli Prize for Medical Research (Swiss)
- 2006 Gregor Mendal Medal of the Czech Academy of Science
- Member of the Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences, Switzerland
- 2007 Member of the German Academy of Sciences, Leopoldina
- 2009 Nucleic Acid Award of the Royal Academy of Chemistry (UK)
- 2009 Election to American Association for the Advancement of Science
- 2011 Prix International de l'INSERM, France
- 2012 EMBO/FEBS Women in Science Award
- 2013 Weizmann Institute, Women in Science Award
