Svante Pääbo#
| Membership Number: | 1823 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 1998 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.mpg.de/369366/evolutionary-anthropology-paeaebo |
Present and Previous Positions
- Since 2003 Guest Professor of Comparative Genomics, University of Uppsala, Sweden
- Since 1999 Honorary Professor of Genetics and Evolutionary Biology, University of Leipzig, Germany
- Since 1997 Director, Max-Planck-Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany
- 1990 - 1998 Full Professor (C4) of General Biology, University of Munich, Germany
- 1990 Docent (habilitation) in Medical Genetics, University of Uppsala, Sweden
- 1987 - 1990 Postdoctoral research at Department of Biochemistry, University of California at Berkeley, USA
- 1987 Short period of work at Imperial Cancer Research Fund, London, UK
- 1986 - 1987 Postdoctoral research at the Institute for Molecular Biology II, University of Zürich, Switzerland
- 1986 PhD degree at University of Uppsala, Sweden
Fields of Scholarship
- Neanderthal mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA)
- The "language gene" (FOXP2)
- Evolutionary anthropology
- Paleogenetics
- Evolutionary genetics
Honours and Awards
- 1992 Leibniz Prize of the German Science Foundation
- 1994 Honorary Doctorate, University of Zurich, Switzerland
- 1998 Member, Academia Europaea
- 1998 Max Delbrück Medal, Berlin, Germany
- 1999 Member, Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Berlin, Germany
- 1999 Carus Medal and Prize, Halle and Schweinfurt,Germany
- 1999 Member, EMBO
- 2000 Honorary Doctorate, University of Helsinki, Finland
- 2000 Rudbeck Prize, Uppsala, Sweden
- 2000 Member, Royal Academy of Sciences, Stockholm, Sweden
- 2002 Member, Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina, Halle, Germany
- 2002 Foreign Member, Finnish Society of Sciences and Letters, Helsinki, Finland
- 2003 Leipzig Science Prize, Leipzig, Germany
- 2003 Ernst Schering Prize, Berlin, Germany
- 2003 Member, Saxonian Academy of Sciences, Leipzig, Germany
- 2004 Foreign Member, National Academy of Sciences, Washington DC, USA
- 2005 Louis Jeantet Prize for Medicine, Geneva, Switzerland
- 2005 Virchow Medal, University of Würzburg, Germany
- 2007 Time Magazine 100 Most Influential People in the World
- 2007 Emeritus Member, Academie Internationale de Philosophie des Sciences, Brussels, Belgium
- 2008 Order of Terra Mariana, 3rd Class, Republic of Estonia
- 2008 Gorjanovic-Kramberger Medal, Zagreb, Croatia
- 2008 Honorary Professor, Graduate University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
- 2008 Academy of Achievement Honoree, Washington D.C., USA
- 2008 Pour le mérite, Bonn, Germany
- 2008 Honorary Doctorate, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
- 2009 Kistler Prize, Seattle, WA, USA
- 2009 Grosses Bundesverdienstkreuz mit Stern, Berlin, Germany
- 2009 Darwin-Plakette, Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina, Halle, Germany
- 2009 Anatomische Les, Amsterdam, Holland
- 2010 Theodor Bücher Medal, Federation of European Biochemical Societies
- 2010 Honorary Member, Croatian Anthropological Society, Zagreb, Croatia
- 2011 Newcomb-Cleveland Prize, AAAS, Washington, D.C.
- 2011 Foreign Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Cambridge MA, USA
- 2011 Biochemical Analysis Prize, DGKL, Berlin, Germany
- 2012 H.M. The King's Medal (Kon:sGM12mhb), Stockholm, Sweden
- 2012 Honorary Doctor of Medicine, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
- 2012 Corresponding Member, Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Zagreb, Croatia
- 2012 Heisse Kartoffel, Leipzig, Gemany
- 2013 Gruber Genetics Prize, New Haven, CT, USA
- 2013 Foreign Member, Royal Academy of Engineering, Stockholm, Sweden
- 2014 Learning Ladder Prize, Stockholm, Sweden
- 2016 Breakthrough Prize in Life Science
- 2018 Körber European Science Prize
- 2020 The Japan Prize
- 2022 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine “for his discoveries concerning the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution”
