Didier Stainier#
| Membership Number: | 4313 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CELL & DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2016 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.mpi-hlr.de/index.php?id=18&L=1 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2015 - present Professor, Biosciences Faculty, Goethe University, Frankfurt/Main
- 2012 - present Director, Dept. of Developmental Genetics, MPI for Heart and Lung Research, Bad Nauheim
- 2003 - 2013 Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco
- 2000 - 2003 Associate Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco
- 1995 - 2000 Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco
- 1990 - 1994 Postdoctoral Fellow, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston
Fields of Scholarship
- Developmental genetics
- Vertebrate organ formation
- Cardiovascular development
- Organ regeneration
Honours and Awards
- 2016 Member: European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
- 2016 ERC Advanced Grant
- 2015 22nd Severo Ochoa Memorial Lecture (CBMSO, Madrid, Spain)
- 2015 van Leeuwenhoek Lecture, Leiden University, Netherlands
- 2014 Ernst Caspari Lecture, University of Goettingen, Germany
- 2013 Officier dans l’ordre de Léopold de Belgique
- 2011 NIH Director’s Wednesday Afternoon Lectureship
- 2008 J.W. Jenkinson Memorial Lectureship, Oxford University
- 2008 Member: American Association for the Advancement of Science (fellow)
- 2003 Outstanding Faculty Mentorship Award, UCSF
- 2003 - 2006 NIH DEV1 study section (Chair)
- 2003 Annual Byers Award in Basic Science, UCSF
- 2002 Mossman Award in Developmental Biology, American Association of Anatomists
- 2000- 2003 Established Investigator Award, American Heart Association
- 1996- 1998 Basil O'Connor Scholarship, March of Dimes Foundation
- 1995- 2000 Packard Foundation Fellowship in Science and Engineering
- 1991- 1994 Helen Hay Whitney Postdoctoral Fellow,
- 1984 Dr. Joseph Garrison Parker Prize in Biology
- 1983 Elihu A. Silver Prize for Undergraduate Research in Science
- 1982 - 1984 Phi Beta Kappa, Recipient: Wien International Scholarship, Brandeis University
