Walter Hunziker
Genetics & Molecular Biology
Institute of Molecular and Cell biology
Japan
Biography
Walter Hunziker obtained his PhD from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (Zurich) in Natural Sciences in 1986 for the cloning of the cDNA of the small intestinal brush border enzyme sucrase-isomaltase. He did postdoctoral work at Yale University where he identified signals that target membrane proteins to the basolateral surface of epithelial cells. In 1992 he moved to the Biochemistry Institute of the University of Lausanne as a group leader, continuing to study membrane traffic in epithelial cells and was appointed Assistant Professor in 1996. He joined IMCB in January 2000 as an Associate Professor and is Deputy Director of IMCB.
Research Interest
Cell biology and Genetics
