Klaus Scherrer#
| Membership Number: | 1767 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 1997 |
| Main Country of Residence: | FRANCE |
Present and Previous Positions
- Emeritus Director of Research of the French CNRS
- 1974-2001 Head of the laboratory at the Institut Jacques Monod of the CNRS and the University Paris VI & VII
- 1967-1973 Head of the Mol. Biol. Department at the Swiss Cancer Institute (ISREC) in Lausanne
- 1961 Assistant Professor at the Institut Pasteur in Paris
- 1961 Ph.D. at ETH
Fields of Scholarship
- Molecular biology
- Regulation of gene expression
- Molecular genomics
- RNA binding protein
- Gene transcription
- mRNA
- 3D Genome organisation
Honours and Awards
- 2013 Professor honoris causa University Brasilia
- 1997 Member of the Academia Europaea
- 1965 Member of EMBO
