Rolf Bodmer
Director and Professor
Development, Aging and Regeneration Program
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute (SBP)
United States of America
Biography
Rolf Bodmer earned his Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Neurobiology from the University of Basel, Switzerland, in 1983. Dr. Bodmer trained as a postdoctoral fellow in Neurobiology at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York, and also studied Molecular Genetics at the University of California, San Francisco. He was appointed Assistant Professor of Biology in 1990 at the University of Michigan. There, he was promoted to Associate Professor of Biology in 1996, and then appointed to Associate Professor of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology in 2001. Dr. Bodmer joined SBP in 2003, where he is Professor and Program Director of the Development, Aging, and Regeneration Program.
Research Interest
ROLF BODMER'S RESEARCH FOCUS RELATED DISEASES > CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES, HEART DISEASE, INHERITED DISORDERS, MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY, METABOLIC SYNDROME, METABOLIC DISEASES, OBESITY, NEURODEGENERATIVE AND NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASES, PARKINSON'S DISEASE, CANCER The Bodmer Laboratory is interested in the molecular mechanisms of organ formation, how patterns are generated and how cells and tissue types assume their correct fates and functions. The Bodmer lab is pursuing this interest by studying the genetic functions and interactions that specify heart development and maintain heart performance in the Drosophila model, in the hope of elucidating basic principles in organogenesis and functionality.
