Meritxell Huch#
| Membership Number: | 7629 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2026 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-1545-5265 |
| Publication Link: | https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=EK0lHucAAAAJ&hl=hu&oi=ao |
Present and Previous Positions
- 05/2024 - 04/2028 Honorary Professor, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany
- Since 01/2024 Program Dean, International Max Planck Research School (IMPRS) for Cell, Developmental and Systems Biology, Dresden, Germany.
- Since 05/2022 Max Planck Director, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics
- 2019 - 2022 Lise Meitner Max Planck Research Group Leader, Max Planck Gesellschaft, Dresden
- 2014 - 2020 Sir Henry Dale Wellcome Trust Group Leader, The Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge; Affiliated Group Leader at The Wellcome Trust/MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute; Member of the Department of Physiology, Developmental Biology and Neurosciences, University of Cambridge, UK.
- 2008 - 2014 Postdoctoral Fellow (Marie Curie Fellow-IEF), Hubrecht Institute for Developmental Biology and Stem Cell Research, Utrecht, The Netherlands
- 2003 - 2007 PhD Student (Spanish Ministry of Health fellow), Centre for Genomic Regulation(CRG), Barcelona, Spain
- 2002 - 2003 Master of Advanced Studies Student (Catalan government fellow), Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), Barcelona, Spain
- 2000 - 2001 Student Internship (Final year student fellow), Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, School of Pharmacy, University of Barcelona, Spain
Fields of Scholarship
- Cancer biology
- Tissue regeneration
- Disease modelling
- Organoid technology
- Regenerative medicine
- Stem cell biology
- Liver biology
- Cellular plasticity
Honours and Awards
- 2025 Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher 2025 (Cross-Field)
- 2025 Elected member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
- 2024 Otto Bayer Award (Bayer Foundation)
- 2023 Elected EMBO member, UK
- 2023 ERC Consolidator Award
- 2022 Hilde Mangold Award. German Stem Cell Network (GSCN)
- 2019 The BINDER Innovation Prize. German Society for Cell Biology (DGZ)
- 2018 Researcher of the Year. Cambridge Independent Science and Technology Awards
- 2018 EMBO Young Investigator Award
- 2018 Dame Sheila Sherlock Prize. The British Association for the Study of the Liver (BASL)
- 2018 The Women in Cell Biology Early Career Medal.The British Society for Cell Biology
- 2016 The Hamdan Award for Medical Research Excellence
- 2014 Wellcome-Beit Prize. Wellcome Trust
- 2014 NC3Rs International Prize. National Centre for the Replacement, Refinement & Reduction of Animals in Research, UK
