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Andreas Papassotiropoulos

Venue
Auditorium 3
Invited by
Lida Katsimpardi
Affiliation
University of Basel - Dept of Biomedicine

Hospital Bonn. His career includes clinical and research stays at the Psychiatric University Clinic Zurich, the National Institute on Aging in Bethesda, USA, and the Translational Genomics Research Institute in Phoenix, USA. In 2003, he was awarded a research professorship by the Swiss National Science Foundation. By 2007, he had become a full professor of Molecular Neuroscience, and in 2010, he was appointed director of the Research Cluster for Cognitive and Molecular Neuroscience at the University of Basel. Andreas has received numerous prestigious awards, including the Robert Bing Prize, the Weizmann Lecture, and the Cloëtta Prize. He is also an elected member of the Senate of the Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences.

Seminar topic: Human genetic signatures of remembering and forgetting as a basis for drug discovery