Michael N. Hall

Biography

 Member of the Scientific Advisory Board, joined the Biozentrum of the University of Basel in 1987 where he is currently Professor and former Chair of Biochemistry. He is a world leader in the fields of TOR signalling and cell growth control. In 1991, Hall and colleagues discovered TOR (Target of Rapamycin).Hall grew up in South America (Venezuela, Peru). He earned a Bachelor of Science in Zoology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1976, and a PhD in Molecular Genetics from Harvard University in 1981. Hall was a postdoctoral fellow at the Institut Pasteur in Paris and at the University of California, San Francisco. He was appointed an Assistant Professor at the Biozentrum of the University of Basel in 1987, and became a Full Professor in 1992. From 1995 to 1998 and from 2002 to 2009 he was head of the Division of Biochemistry, and from 2002 until 2009 was Deputy Director of the Biozentrum

Research Interest

 TOR signalling and cell growth control