Michael Steinmetz#
| Sadly, this member passed away. | |
| Membership Number: | 588 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 1989 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED STATES |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.clarusventures.com |
Michael Steinmetz passed away August 6, 2016.
Present and Previous Positions
- 2005 Managing Director, Clarus Ventures, Boston (MA, USA)
- 1997 - 2005 General Partner, MPM Capital, Boston (MA, USA)
- 1986 - 1997 VP Preclinical Research and Development, Hoffmann-La Roche, Basel (Switzerland) and Nutley (NJ, USA)
- 1983 - 1986 Permanent Member Basel Institute for Immunology, Switzerland
- 1977 - 1983 Postdocs at Univ. Munich (Germany) and Caltech Pasadena (CA, USA)
- 1977 Ph.D. Chemistry Univ. Munich, Germany
Fields of Scholarship
- Chemistry
- Molecular biology
- Immunology
- Pharmaceuticals
- Biotechnology
Honours and Awards
- 1980-1982 Fellowship of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
- 1982-1983 Lievre Fellow of the American Cancer Society
- 1983 Young Investigator Award of the American Association for Histocompatibility Testing
- 1985 Venia docendi, Philosophisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultaet, Univ. Basel, Switzerland
- 1991-2001 Adjunct Professor, Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Univ. of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey
- Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
