Jan-Michael Peters#
| Membership Number: | 3896 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CELL & DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2014 |
| Main Country of Residence: | AUSTRIA |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.imp.ac.at/research/jan-michael-peters |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2013 - present Scientific Director, IMP, Vienna
- 2011 - 2012 Scientific Deputy Director, IMP, Vienna
- 2002 - 2010 Senior Scientist, IMP, Vienna
- 1996 - 2001 Group Leader, IMP, Vienna
- 1994 - 1996 Postdoctoral fellow, Harvard Medical School, Dept. Cell Biology, Laboratory Marc W. Kirschner, Boston
- 1992 - 1993 Postdoctoral fellow, German Cancer Research Center, Laboratory Werner W. Franke, Heidelberg
- 1988 - 1991 PhD student, German Cancer Research Center, Laboratory Werner W. Franke, Heidelberg
- 1987 - 1988 Diploma student, German Cancer Research Center, Laboratory Werner W. Franke, Heidelberg
Fields of Scholarship
- Cell cycle
- Chromosome biology
- Mitosis
- Ubiquitin-dependent proteolysis
Honours and Awards
- 2012 Member of Austrian Academy of Sciences
- 2011 Wittgenstein Prize
- 2008 Mendel lecture
- 2007 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Mayer lecture
- 2007 Binder Innovation Prize
- 2005 Boehringer Ingelheim Research & Development Award
- 2002 Novartis Research Prize
- 2002 EMBO member
- 2001 Roche Research Prize for Cell Biology
- 2001 EMBO Young Investigator Award
- 1994 EMBO long-term postdoctoral fellowship (until 1996)
- 1994 Falcon Prize of German Society for Cell Biology
- 1992 German Cancer Research Center postdoctoral fellowship (until 1994)
- 1992 Junior Scientist Award of Society for Promotion of Molecular Biology
- 1983 German National Scholarship Foundation student fellowship (until 1988)
