Tõnis Timmusk#
| Membership Number: | 7188 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
| Affiliated section(s): | PHYSIOLOGY & NEUROSCIENCE |
| Elected: | 2025 |
| Main Country of Residence: | ESTONIA |
| Homepage(s): | https://taltech.ee/en/department-chemistry-biotechnology |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-1015-3348 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2017 - present Professor of Molecular Biology, Department of Chemistry and Biotechnology, School of Science, Tallinn University of Technology, Tallinn, Estonia
- 2019 - present Lead Scientist, Protobios LLC
- 2002 - 2017 Professor of Molecular Biology, Department of Gene Technology, School of Science, Tallinn University of Technology, Tallinn, Estonia
- 2013 - 2015 Visiting Professor, Institute of Biomedicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
- 2013 Visiting Scholar, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan
- 2011 - 2013 Visiting Professor, Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
- 2003 - 2005 Senior Research Scientist, National Institute of Chemical Physics and Biophysics, Tallinn, Estonia
- 1999 - 2003 Senior Research Scientist, Institute of Biotechnology, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
- 1996 - 1999 Research Assistant Professor of Swedish Medical Research Council, Dept. Neuroscience, Biomedical Center, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
- 1995 - 1996 Research Assistant Professor of Swedish Medical Research Council, Dept. Medical Chemistry and Biophysics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
- 1994 - 1995 Postdoctoral fellow, Dept. Medical Chemistry and Biophysics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
- 1991 - 1994 PhD student, Dept. Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
- 1991 visiting scientist Institute of Biotechnology, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
- 1985 - 1991 Junior Research Fellow, Institute of Chemical Physics and Biophysics, Tallinn, Estonia
Fields of Scholarship
- Molecular neurobiology
- Brain-derived neurotrophic factor
- Neurotrophic factors
- neurodegenerative disorders
- Schizophrenia
- Activity-dependent transcription
- Intellectual disability
Honours and Awards
- 2024 Lifetime Achievement Award from Estonian Society of Human Genetics
- 2020 National Science Award in chemistry and molecular biology
- 2010 Estonian State Decoration: The Order of the White Star, fourth class
- 2008 National Science Award in medical sciences
- 2003 Wellcome Trust International Senior Research Fellowship
