Maria Magdalena Konarska#


Maria Magdalena Konarska
Membership Number:4569
Membership type:ORDINARY
Section:BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY
Elected:2017
Main Country of Residence:POLAND
Homepage(s):http://www.imol.institute
ORCID:0000-0001-9235-1702





Present and Previous Positions

  • 2021-date Deputy Director for Science, International Institute of Molecular Mechanisms and Machines (IMol), Polish Academy of Sciences
  • 2017-2023 deputy director of the International Research Agenda Unit, ReMedy – Regenerative Mechanisms for Health
  • 2015-2021 dr hab., prof UW, Centre for New Technologies, University of Warsaw, Poland
  • 2015 - date Professor Emeritus, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY, USA
  • 2000-2015 Evelyn Lipper Professor and Head of Laboratory, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY, USA
  • 1994-2000 Associate Professor and Head of Laboratory, The Rockefeller University New York, NY, USA
  • 1989-1994 Assistant Professor and Head of Laboratory, The Rockefeller University New York, NY, USA
  • 1987-1989 Research Associate, Center for Cancer Research, MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA
  • 1984-1987 Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Cancer Research, MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA
  • 1979-1983 Ph.D. Student, Polish Academy of Sciences, Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Warsaw, Poland
  • 1981, 82, 83; (total 9 months) Research Fellow, University of Würzburg, Institute of Biochemistry, Würzburg, Germany

Fields of Scholarship
  • RNA biology
  • Spliceosome
  • Pre-mRNA splicing
  • snRNAs
  • Yeast genetics

Honours and Awards
  • 2020 The Jakub Karol Parnas Award of the Polish Biochemical Society
  • 2017 Member of EMBO
  • 2016 Corresponding Member of the Polish Academy of Sciences
  • 2013 Member of Academia Net
  • 1992 - 1997 The Monique Weill-Caulier Scientist Award
  • 1987 - 1994 The Lucille P. Markey Scholar Award
  • 1983 - 1986 The Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Fund Postdoctoral Fellowship
  • 1985 The Jakub Karol Parnas Award of the Polish Biochemical Society
  • 1983 The Polish Academy of Sciences; Scientific Secretary Award
  • 1982 The Polish Academy of Sciences; Biological Sciences Section Award

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