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

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