Elaine Dzierzak#
| Membership Number: | 3731 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CELL & DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2014 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.cir.ed.ac.uk/investigator/professor-elaine-dzierzak |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2013 Professor of Haematologic Regeneration, University of Edinburgh, UK
- 2008 - 2013 Director of Erasmus MC Stem Cell Institute, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, NL
- 1998 - 2013 Professor of Developmental Biology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, NL
- 1996 - 1998 Professor of Developmental Biology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, NL
- 1989 - 1996 Staff Scientist, National Institute for Medical Research, London, UK
- 1985 - 1989 Postdoctoral Associate, MIT Whitehead Institute, Cambridge, USA
- 1980 - 1985 PhD Student, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
Fields of Scholarship
- Developmental haematopoiesis
- Haematopoietic stem cells
- Aorta-gonad-mesonephros region
- Endothelial-to-haematopoietic transition
- Haematopoietic transcription factors
- Haematopoietic microenvironment
- Stem cell transplantation
- Developmental signaling
Honours and Awards
- 1994 Leukemia Society of America, Scholar Award
- 1998 Elected Member of European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
- 2003 Netherlands Research Organization (NWO) VICI Award
- 2006 National Institutes of Health (NIH) Merit Award
- 2011 Vice President of the International Society for Experimental Hematology (ISEH)
- 2012 President of the International Society for Experimental Hematology (ISEH)
- 2013 European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant Award
