Andrea Musacchio
Direktor, Mechanistische Zellbiologie
Vita
Education
1985-90
Degree in Biology, University of Tor Vergata (summa cum laude), Rome, Italy,
Research advisor: Prof. Dr. Giovanni Cesareni
1991-95
PhD in Biochemistry, EMBL-University of Heidelberg (summa cum laude), Heidelberg, Germany
Research advisor: Dr. Matti Saraste
1995-98
Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA,
Research advisor: Prof Stephen C. Harrison
Current Position(s)
2011-now
Director, Department of Mechanistic Cell Biology, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology, Dortmund, Germany
2012-now
Honorary Full Professor, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Previous Position(s)
1999-03
Assistant Professor, Department of Experimental Oncology, European Institute of Oncology, Milan, Italy
2003-06
Associate Professor, Department of Experimental Oncology, European Institute of Oncology, Milan, Italy
2006-10
Full Professor, Department of Experimental Oncology, European Institute of Oncology, Milan, Italy
Fellowships and Awards
- Human Frontier Science Program postdoctoral fellow (1995-1997)
- American Cancer Society Senior postdoctoral fellow (1997-1998)
- Scholar of the Italian Foundation for Cancer Research (1999-2004)
- EMBO Young Investigator (2000-2004)
- Chiara D’Onofrio Prize (2006)
- Mendel Lecture 2008 (Brno, Czech Republic)
- ERC Senior Investigator Grant Awardee (2008) EMBO Member (since 2009)