Martin Fussenegger#
| Membership Number: | 6045 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
| Affiliated section(s): | CELL & DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2022 |
| Main Country of Residence: | SWITZERLAND |
| Homepage(s): | http://bsse.ethz.ch/research/research-groups/biotechnology-and-bioengineering.html |
| ORCID: | 0000-0001-8545-667X |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2010 Full Professor at the University of Basel (Double Professor ETHZ-UniBas)
- 2009 - 2010 Chairman of the ETH Zurich Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering
- 2008 - 2009 Vice-Chairman of the ETH Zurich Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering
- 2007 Full Professor of Biotechnology and Bioengineering at the ETH Zurich
- 2006 - 2008 Director of the ETH Zurich Institute for Chemical and Bioengineering
- 2005 - 2013 Director of Studies of the ETH Zurich Biotechnology Curriculum
- 2004 - 2007 Associate Professor of Biotechnology and Bioengineering at the ETH Zurich
- 2001 - 2003 Swiss National Science Professor of Molecular Biotechnology at the ETH Zurich
- 1996 - 2000 Independent Group Leader at the ETH Zurich (Mentor: James E. Bailey)
- 1995 Postdoctoral Fellow, MPI for Infection Biology (Mentor: Thomas F. Meyer)
Fields of Scholarship
- Diabetes
- Obesity
- Synthetic biology
- Immunology
- Technology
- Neurodegenerative disorders
- Biopharmaceutical manufacturing
- Cancer
- Infection
- Electrogenetics
Honours and Awards
- 2002 Swiss National Science Foundation Professor Award
- 2002 DeVigier Award
- 2003 Gaden Award by the American Chemical Society
- 2008 Fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE)
- 2008 Merck Award in Cell Culture Engineering
- 2009 Bayer Lecturer, University of California at Berkeley
- 2009 Swiss Tuberculosis Award
- 2011 Swiss Technology Award
- 2012 Member of the Swiss Academy of Engineering Sciences (SATW)
- 2012 World Leader in Synthetic Biology (Oldham et al., 2012; Fig. 6)
- 2012 ERC Advanced Grant (ProNet)
- 2013 Gutenberg Chair, Research Excellence Award, University of Strasbourg, France
- 2015 Medal of Honour by the European Society for Animal Cell Technology (ESACT)
- 2015 James E. Bailey Award, by the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AICHE)
- 2016 Honorary Professor, East China Normal University, Shanghai, PRC
- 2017 EMBO Member
- 2017 International Member of the US National Academy of Engineering (NAE)
- 2018 ERC Advanced Grant (ElectroGene)
- 2019 Chinese Scholarship Council (CSC), Best PhD Student Education Award
- 2020 Chinese Scholarship Council (CSC), Best PhD Student Education Award
