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Biography

 

Sabine Werner has been Professor of Cell Biology at the ETH Zurich since February 1999. She is currently the vice-chair of the Department of Biology.

Sabine Werner studied Biochemistry at the Universities of Tubingen and Munich. She earned her Ph.D. at the University of Munich, after having completed her dissertation at the Max-Planck-Institute of Biochemistry in Martinsried in the department of Prof. Peter Hans Hofschneider. After a short postdoctoral period at the same institute, she moved to the University of California San Francisco, where she started to work on the molecular mechanisms of growth factor action and tissue repair as a postdoctoral researcher in the laboratory of Prof. Lewis T. Williams. From 1993-1999 she was a group leader at the Max-Planck-Institute of Biochemistry in Martinsried, Germany. In 1996 she obtained a Hermann-and-Lilly Schilling professorship of Medical Research at the same institute and from 1995-1999 she was also Associate Professor of Biochemistry at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich.

Major research interests:

  • Molecular and cellular mechanisms of cutaneous wound repair and the parallels to cancer
  • Mechanisms involved in the pathogenesis of inflammatory skin disease
  • Molecular and cellular mechanisms of liver regeneration

In particular, the group studies the roles of growth factors and their downstream targets in these processes.

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