Annette Schenck#
| Membership Number: | 5462 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSIOLOGY & NEUROSCIENCE |
| Elected: | 2020 |
| Main Country of Residence: | THE NETHERLANDS |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.radboudumc.nl/en/people/annette-schenck |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-6918-3314 |
| Twitter: | @annette_schenck |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2020 to present Full Professor in Translational Genomics of Neurodevelopmental Disorders, Department of Human Genetics, Donders Institute of Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University Medical Center (Radboudumc), Nijmegen, The Netherlands
- 2009 to 2020 Associate Professor, Department of Human Genetics, Drosophila models of brain disorders & Neurogenetics group, Donders Institute of Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboudumc, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
- 2008 - 2009 Assistant Professor, tenured position, Department of Human Genetics, Radboud Institute for Molecular Life Science (RIMLS) & Donders Institute of Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboudumc, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
- 2007 to present Principal Investigator, Department of Human Genetics, RIMLS & Donders Institute of Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboudumc, Nijmegen, the Netherlands (hired initially on a 5 year tenure-track position)
- 2004 - 2007 Postdoctoral Researcher, Zerial laboratory, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany
- 2004 Postdoctoral period at Institut de Génétique et de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire (IGBMC), finishing PhD projects
- 1999 - 2003 PhD Thesis, Mandel laboratory, Departments: Human Pathology and Developmental Biology, IGBMC, CNRS-INSERM-Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France
Fields of Scholarship
- Genetics
- Neuroscience
- Molecular biology
- Developmental biology
- Disease models
- Drosophila melanogaster
- Neurodevelopmental disorders
- Intellectual disability
- Autism spectrum disorders
- Neuropsychiatric disorders
Honours and Awards
- 2019 VICI grant by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO). Most prestigious personal career award for advanced stage researchers in the Netherlands (awarded: top 13%), 1,500 kEuro
- 2009 Aspasia Award for highly qualified Women in Science by NWO, 100 kEuro
- 2008 VIDI grant by NWO. Most prestigious personal career award for mid-stage researchers in the Netherlands (awarded: top 18%). 600 kEuro
- 2007 Hypatia track research fellowship (formerly NCMLS tenure-track research fellowship), Radboud University Medical Center, 720 kEuro
- 2004 Postdoctoral Long-term fellowship by the European Molecular Biology Organisation (EMBO-LTF)
- 2004 Thesis award: Best Thesis in 2004 at Alsatian Universities (Prix de thèse des Universités d’Àlsace)
- 2001 Isabelle Oberlé young researcher award (10th International Workshop on Fragile X and Mental Retardation, Rome, Italy)
