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10/06/2015 13:19

Helmholtz International Fellow Award for Professor Amanda Fisher from London at the MDC

Barbara Bachtler Pressestelle
Max-Delbrück-Centrum für Molekulare Medizin in der Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft

    The British cell biologist Professor Amanda Gay Fisher of Imperial College (ICL) London has been honored with the Helmholtz International Fellow Award for her excellent research. In a prize ceremony at the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association (MDC) in Berlin, Germany, MDC’s interim director Professor Thomas Sommer presented the certificate to her on Tuesday, October 6th, 2015. Professor Fisher wishes in particular to strengthen her existing collaborations with the Berlin Institute of Medical Systems Biology (BIMSB) of the MDC. She is one of seven outstanding researchers from abroad who received the award in 2015, each of which is endowed with 20,000 euros.

    In her research, Professor Fisher focuses on gene regulation, a fundamental process of life which controls every biological function, including cell division, cell differentiation and regeneration. Professor Fisher, who started her research career in the 1980s, has earned an international reputation in this field. She is known for her pioneering work on HIV, the AIDS virus, describing the function of several of its genes. She also is an expert in epigenetic gene regulation - a process in which molecular biological information not contained in the DNA regulates which genes are turned on and which genes are kept silent. She also has an expertise in T lymphocyte development (immune cells) and in embryonic stem cells.

    Professor Fisher is the joint head of the Lymphocyte Development group at the MRC (Medical Research Council) Clinical Sciences Centre (CSC), which forms part of the Institute for Clinical Sciences (ICS) at Imperial College London, whose director she is. In addition, she is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Berlin Institute of Health (BIH), which was founded by the MDC and the Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin in 2013. All these institutions have a strong interest in “bench-to-bedside” research employing translational and systems biological approaches.

    In 2014 Professor Fisher was elected Fellow of the Royal Society for her outstanding achievements in biomedical research. In 2010 she received the Women of Outstanding Achievement in SET (Science, Engineering & Technology) Award, and in 2003 she became a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences in Britain. In 2002 she was honored with the EMBO Gold Medal for her AIDS research.

    Since 2012 a total of 43 Fellows including the seven scientists of this selection round have received the Helmholtz International Fellow Award.

    Contact:
    Barbara Bachtler
    Press Department
    Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association (MDC)
    Robert-Rössle-Straße 10
    13125 Berlin
    Germany
    Phone: +49 (0) 30 94 06 - 38 96
    Fax: +49 (0) 30 94 06 - 38 33
    e-mail: presse@mdc-berlin.de
    http://www.mdc-berlin.de/en


    More information:

    http://www.helmholtz.de/en/
    http://csc.mrc.ac.uk/research-group/lymphocyte-development/
    https://www.mdc-berlin.de/40549075/de/bimsb


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    Helmholtz International Fellow Award for cell biologist Amanda Gay Fisher of Imperial College (ICL) London and Thomas Sommer, interim director of the (MDC) after the prize ceremony at the MDC.
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    British cell biologist Professor Amanda Gay Fisher of Imperial College (ICL) London delivering her lecture at the MDC.
    British cell biologist Professor Amanda Gay Fisher of Imperial College (ICL) London delivering her l ...
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    Criteria of this press release:
    Journalists, Scientists and scholars
    Biology
    transregional, national
    Contests / awards, Personnel announcements
    English


     

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