Davor Solter#
| Membership Number: | 1260 |
| Membership type: | FOREIGN |
| Section: | CELL & DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 1992 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED STATES |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2014 Siriraj International Visiting Professor, Faculty of Medicine
- 2008 - 2013 Professor, Duke University – National University of Singapore, Graduate Medical School, Singapore
- 2008 - 2013 Research Director, Institute of Medical Biology, Biomedical Research Council, A*STAR, Singapore
- 2007 - Present Emeritus Director and Member, Max-Planck-Institute of Immunobiology, Department of Developmental Biology, Freiburg, Germany
- 2000 - Present Visiting Professor, University of Zagreb Medical School, Croatia
- 1993 - 2011 Adjuct Professor, The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, ME
- 1991 - 2006 Director and Member, Max-Planck-Institute of Immunobiology, Department of Developmental Biology, Freiburg, Germany
- 1991 - Present Adjunct Wistar Professor, Wistar Institute, Philadelphia, PA
- 1987 - 1988 Senior Visiting Scientist, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.
- 1984 - 1991 Member, Graduate Group in Molecular Biology, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, University of Pennsylvania
- 1984 - 1991 Member, Graduate Group in Molecular Biology, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, University of Pennsylvania
- 1984 - 1991 Wistar Professor of Biology, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, University of Pennsylvania
- 1982 - 1991 Member, Graduate Group in Microbiology, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, University of Pennsylvania
- 1981 - 1991 Professor, The Wistar Institute, Philadelpha, PA
- 1975 - 1980 Associate Professor, The Wistar Institute, Philadelphia, PA
- 1973 - 1974 Associate Scientist, The Wistar Institute, Philadelphia, PA
- 1972 - 1973 Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, School of Medicine, Zagreb
- 1968 - 1972 Instructor, Department of Biology, School of Medicine, Zagreb
- 1966 - 1968 Instructor, Department of Anatomy, School of Medicine, Zagreb
- 1963 - 1965 Student Instructor, Department of Anatomy, School of Medicine, Zagreb
Fields of Scholarship
- Cloning and reprogramming
- Developmental genetics
- Imprinting
- Epigenetics
- Developmental biology
- Early mammalian development
Honours and Awards
- 1971 EMBO Scholarship - NATO School on Molecular and Developmental Biology, Erice, Italy
- 1971 SKOJ Award for Achievement in Biological Sciences
- 1973 - 1974 Damon Runyon Memorial Cancer Fund Fellow
- 1986 - 1987 Distinguished Lecturer, University of Tennessee-Oak Ridge National Laboratory
- 1994 Member, European Molecular Biology Organization
- 1994 Foreign Honorary Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 1994 - 1998 John E. Fogarty International Center, NIH, Scholar-in-Residence
- 1995 Japanese Biochemical Society, plenary lecturer
- 1995 Honorary Member, Japanese Biochemical Society
- 1998 March of Dimes Prize in Developmental Biology
- 1999 J. W. Jenkinson Memorial Lecturer, Oxford University
- 2003 Huxley Lecture, University of Birmingham
- 2006 Rosenstiel Award, with Surani and Mary Lyon, for "pioneering work on epigenetic gene regulation in mammalian embryos"
- 2007 Rosenstiel Award
- 2008 John H. Blaffer Lecture, UT M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
- 2008 Distinguished Lecture Series, Duke University
- 2008 R. G. Williams Lecture, University of Pennsylvania
- 2018 Recipient of the Canada Gairdner International Award, with Azim Surani, "For the discovery of mammalian genomic imprinting that causes parent-of-origin specific gene expression and its consequences for development and disease"
