Elly Tanaka#
| Membership Number: | 3971 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CELL & DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2015 |
| Main Country of Residence: | AUSTRIA |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.imp.ac.at/groups/elly-tanaka |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2016 - present Senior Scientist at the Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP) in Vienna
- 2008 - 2016 Full Professor, Technische Universität Dresden, DFG Research Center for Regenerative Therapies
- 1999 - 2008 Group leader, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden
Fields of Scholarship
- Spinal cord regeneration
- Limb development and regeneration
- Neural stem cells
- Vertebrate regeneration
Honours and Awards
- 2024 Member, German National Academy of Sciences (Leopoldina)
- 2023 Member, National Academy of Sciences
- 2021 Member, Austrian Academy of Sciences
- 2020 FEBS | EMBO Women in Science Award
- 2018 Erwin Schrödinger Prize of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
- 2017 Member, European Molecular Biology Organisation
- 2017 Ernst Schering Prize
- 2013 Fellow of the Max Planck Society
- 2012 ERC Advanced Research Award
- 2003 Biofutures Award, BMBF
