Nouria Hernandez#
| Membership Number: | 3700 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2013 |
| Main Country of Residence: | SWITZERLAND |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.unil.ch/cig/en/home/menuinst/research/research-groups/prof-hernandez.html |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2005 Director, Center for Integrative Genomics, University of Lausanne
- 2005 Professor, Center for Integrative Genomics, University of Lausanne
- 1999-2005 Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
- 1994-1999 Associate Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
- 1993-2005 Professor , Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
- 1987-1993 Senior Staff Investigator, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
- 1983-1986 Post-doctoral fellow, Yale University
- 1980-1983 Graduate student, German Cancer Research Center and University of Heidelberg
Fields of Scholarship
- Transcription of small nuclear RNA genes
- Regulation of RNA polymerase III transcription
- Genomic regulation of RNA polymerase III transcription
- Consequences of de-regulation of RNA polymerase III transcription
Honours and Awards
- 1983-1984 Swiss National Science Foundation post-doctoral fellowship
- 1985-1986 Damon Runyon-Walter Winchell Cancer Fund fellowship
- 1989-1994 Scholarship from the Rita Allen Foundation
- 2007 EMBO member
- 2007 Executive board, Swiss Academy of Sciences
- 2007 Prof. Dr. Max Cloëtta Foundation Prize
- 2013 Member of the Academia Europaea
