Claudio Daniel Stern#
Membership Number: | 3469 |
Membership type: | ORDINARY |
Section: | CELL & DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY |
Elected: | 2013 |
Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
Homepage(s): | http://www.ucl.ac.uk/cdb/research/stern |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2001-present J Z Young Professor of Anatomy (Head of Department 2001-2011), Dept. Cell & Developmental Biology, University College London, UK
- 1994-2001 Professor and Chairman, Dept. Genetics and Development, Columbia University, New York, USA
- 1985-1994 University Lecturer, Dept. Human Anatomy, University of Oxford, UK
- 1984-1985 University Demonstrator, Anatomy Dept., Cambridge University, UK
- 1978-1984 Postdoctoral Fellow, Dept. Anatomy and Embryology, University College London, UK
Fields of Scholarship
- Developmental biology
- Cell fate determination
- Induction
- Pattern formation
- Morphogenesis
- Control of gene expression
- Stem cell biology
- Neural development (developmental neurobiology)
Honours and Awards
- 2010 ERC Advanced Investigator Award
- 2008 FRS (elected Fellow of the Royal Society)
- 2008 FIBiol (elected Fellow of the Institute of Biology - now renamed Society of Biology)
- 2006 Waddington Medal, British Society for Developmental Biology
- 2001 Elected member of EMBO (European Molecular Biology Organization)
- 2001 FMedSci (elected member of the Academy of Medical Sciences)
- 2001 Elected foreign fellow ("miembro correspondiente") of the Latin-American Academy of Sciences