Alexander Schier#
| Membership Number: | 5417 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CELL & DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2020 |
| Main Country of Residence: | SWITZERLAND |
| Homepage(s): | http://schierlab.biozentrum.unibas.ch |
| ORCID: | 0000-0001-7645-5325 |
| Twitter: | @schierlab |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2018 - present Director and Professor, Biozentrum, University of Basel
- 2019 Visiting Professor, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University
- 2017 - present Site Director Allen Discovery Center for Cell Lineage
- 2014 - 2017 Chair, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University
- 2013 - 2018 Leo Erikson Life Sciences Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University
- 2006 - 2019 Member, Harvard Stem Cell Institute, Broad Institute, Center for Brain Science
- 2005 - 2018 Professor, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University
- 1999 - 2005 Associate Professor, Developmental Genetics Program, Skirball Institute and Department of Cell Biology, NYU School of Medicine
- 1996 - 1999 Assistant Professor, Developmental Genetics Program, Skirball Institute and Department of Cell Biology, NYU School of Medicine
- 1992 - 1996 Postdoctoral research. Laboratory of Wolfgang Driever, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard University
- 1988 - 1992 Doctoral research. Laboratory of Walter J. Gehring, Biozentrum, University of Basel
- 1986 - 1987 Undergraduate research. Laboratory of Walter J. Gehring, Biozentrum, University of Basel
Fields of Scholarship
- Developmental genetics
- Non-coding RNAs
- Behavior
- Zebrafish
- Morphogen
- Developmental lineages and trajectories
- Embryogenesis
Honours and Awards
- 2020 Election to US National Academy of Sciences
- 2020 George Streisinger Award from the International Zebrafish Society
- 2020 ERC Advanced Grant
- 2018 Featured in Science “Breakthrough of the Year 2018”, including cover image.
- 2018 Elected member of EMBO
- 2017 NIH Pioneer Award
- 2016 Departmental Bjorkman-Strominger-Wiley Prize for Collaboration, with Florian Engert
- 2016 NIH MERIT Award
- 2013 Gene Expression Systems RNAi Innovator Award
- 2006 Harland Winfield Mossman Developmental Biologists Award of the American Asc. of Anatomists
- 2002 Established Investigator of the American Heart Association
- 2001 Irma T. Hirschl Scholar
- 1999 McKnight Scholar for Neuroscience
- 1994 Swiss National Science Foundation Fellowship for Advanced Researchers
- 1992 EMBO Longterm Fellowship
