Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard#
| Membership Number: | 322 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CELL & DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 1989 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.eb.tuebingen.mpg.de/nc/research/emeriti/research-group-colour-pattern-formation/profile/details/cnv.html |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2014 Director Emeritus of Research Group "Colour Pattern Formation" at the Max Planck Institute of Developmental Biological Sciences, Tübingen
- 2005 - 2012 Director of the Friedrich-Miescher-Laboratory, Tübingen
- 1985 - 2014 Director at the Max-Planck-Institute of Developmental Biology, Tübingen
- 1981 - 1984 FML of the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft in Tübingen
- 1978 - 1981 Group leader at the EMBL, Heidelberg
- 1973 PhD in Genetics, University of Tübingen
- 1969 Diploma in Biochemistry, University of Tübingen
Fields of Scholarship
- Molecular and genetic analysis of development
- Establishment of cell polarity in Drosophila
- Growth and cell migration in the zebrafish
Honours and Awards
- 2013 - 2021 Chancellor of the order Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts
- 2019 Schiller Prize of the City of Marbach
- 2014 Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art
- 2009 Austrian Decoration for Science and Art
- 2007 German Founder Award of the Federation of German Foundations
- 2006 L'Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science Awards
- 2005 Grand Merit Cross with Star and Sash of the Federal Republic of Germany (Großes Verdienstkreuz mit Stern und Schulterband)
- 1997 Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts
- 1996 Order of Merit of Baden-Württemberg
- 1995 The Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine
(together with Eric Wieschaus and Edward B. Lewis)
- 1994 Merit Cross of the Federal Republic of Germany
- 1993 Ernst Schering Prize, Berlin
- 1993 Sir Hans Krebs Medal from the Federation of European Biochemical Societies
- 1992 Otto Warburg Medal of the German Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
- 1992 Otto Bayer Award
- 1992 Mendel Medal
- 1992 Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize from Columbia University
- 1992 Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine
- 1992 Alfred P. Sloan, Jr. Prize
- 1991 Keith R. Porter Lecture
- 1991 Albert Lasker Medical Research Award, New York
- 1989 Rosenstiel Award
- 1986 Franz Vogt Award of the University of Giessen
- 1986 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize of the German Research Foundation
- Foreign member of the Royal Society, London, UK
- Member of the National Academy, Wash. US
- Member of the European Molecular Biology Organisation (EMBO), the Leopoldina, Halle
- Member of the Berlin/Brandenburg Academy, Berlin
- The asteroid 15811 Nüsslein-Volhard is named in her honour
- Memberships
- 1989 Founding member of the Academia Europaea
- 1989 Corresponding member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences
- 1990 Corresponding member of North Rhine-Westphalia Academy for Sciences and Arts
- 1990 Elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society (ForMemRS), London
- 1990 Member of the National Academy of Sciences, Washington
- 1991 Member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
- 1992 Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 1995 Member of the American Philosophical Society
- 2001 - 2006 Member of the National Ethics Council of the Federal Government (German Ethics Council)
- Member of the French Academy of Sciences
- Member of the Scientific Committee of the Ingrid zu Solms Foundation
- Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization
- Honorary Degrees
- 1991 Honorary doctorate from the University of Utrecht
- 1991 Honorary doctorate from Princeton University
- 1993 Honorary doctorate from the University of Freiburg
- 1993 Honorary doctorate from Harvard University
- 2001 Honorary doctorate from Rockefeller University
- 2002 Honorary doctorate from University College London
- 2005 Honorary doctorate from University of Oxford
- 2007 Honorary doctorate from Weizmann Institute of Science
- 2008 Mercator Professorship, University of Duisburg-Essen
- 2011 Honorary doctorate from the University of St Andrews
- 2012 Honorary doctorate from the University of Bath
