Joachim Lingner
Professor
School of Life Science
Swiss Institute for Experimental Cancer Research
Switzerland
Biography
JOACHIM LINGNER did PhD at the Biocenter, University of Basel 1989-1992 (Supervisor: Walter Keller). Postdoc at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Colorado at Boulder 1993-1997 (Supervisor: Thomas Cech). Junior group leader at ISREC 1997-2001. Senior group leader at ISREC since 2002. He was an Associate Professor at EPFL 2005-2008. Now he is the Full Professor at EPFL since 2009. Honors: START-fellowship from the Swiss National Science Foundation in 1997; Friedrich Miescher Prize from the Swiss Society of Biochemistry in 2002; EMBO member in 2005; ERC advanced investigator grant in 2008.
Research Interest
Telomeres ;Telomerases ;Non-coding RNA
