Scientific Advisory Board
The FMI Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) members assist the FMI co-directors and group leaders; they review research programs, and advise on policy and scientific matters. All of the SAB members are prominent experts in the field of biomedical research.
They are appointed for a three-year term.
Current SAB members

Prof. Naama Barkai
Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
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Prof. Catherine Dulac
Harvard University, Cambridge, USA
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Prof. Gordon Fishell
Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, USA
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Prof. Douglas Higgs
The Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Oxford, UK
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Dr. Michaela Kneissel
Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, Basel, Switzerland
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Prof. Edvard Moser
Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience, Trondheim, Norway
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Prof. Roy Parker (chair)
University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, USA
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Prof. Janet Rossant
SickKids Research Institute, Toronto, Canada
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Prof. Massimo Scanziani
UCSF Center for Integrative Neuroscience, San Francisco, USA
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Prof. Alexander Schier
Biozentrum, University of Basel, Switzerland
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Period | Member | Institution |
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2019 | Andrea Musacchio | Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology, Dortmund, Germany (ad hoc) |
2014-2019 | Adriano Aguzzi | Institute of Neuropathology, University Hospital Zurich, Switzerland |
2014-2019 | Adrian Bird | University of Edinburgh, UK |
2018 | Tobias Bonhoeffer | Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology, Martinsried, Germany (ad hoc) |
2014-2017 | Lewis Cantley | Harvard Medical School |
2013-2017 | Anne Ephrussi | EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany |
2010-2017 | Jeff Porter | Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, Cambridge, USA |
2008-2014 | Martin Schwab | University and ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland |
2007-2014 | David Allis | The Rockefeller University, New York, USA |
2005-2012 | Gideon Dreyfuss | Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA |
2005-2012 | Catherine Dulac | Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA |
2010 | Adam Antebi | Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing, Cologne, Germany (ad hoc) |
2010 | Adrian Bird | University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK (ad hoc) |
2010 | Sarah Elgin | Washington University, St. Louis, USA (ad hoc) |
2007-2010 | Mu-Ming Poo | University of California, Berkeley, USA |
2009 | Tobias Bonhoeffer | Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology, Martinsried, Germany (ad hoc) |
2009 | Thomas Jenuwein | Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology, Freiburg, Germany (ad hoc) |
2008-2009 | Jan de Vries | Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research, Basel, Switzerland |
2003-2008 | Tony Hunter | Salk Institute for Biological Studies, San Diego, USA |
2001-2008 | Martin Raff | University College London, London, UK |
2007 | Victor Ambros | University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA (ad hoc) |
2007 | Sara Courtneidge | Burnham Institute for Medical Research, La Jolla, USA (ad hoc) |
2007 | Peter Parker | Cancer Research UK London Research Institute, London, UK (ad hoc) |
2004-2007 | Harald Reuter | University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland |
2001-2007 | Alex Matter | Experimental Therapeutics Center, Singapore, Singapore |
2006 | Adrian Bird | University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK (ad hoc) |
2006 | Sarah Elgin | Washington University, St. Louis, USA (ad hoc) |
2006 | Moshe Yaniv | SCNRS Institut Pasteur, Paris, France (ad hoc) |
2005-2006 | Gary Ruvkun | Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, USA |
2005 | Mu-ming Poo | University of California, Berkeley, USA (ad hoc) |
2005 | Peter H. Seeburg | Max Planck Institute of Medical Research, Heidelberg, Germany (ad hoc) |
2002-2005 | Moshe Yaniv | SCNRS Institut Pasteur, Paris, France |
1999-2005 | Frank McCormick | University of California, San Francisco, USA |
2002-2004 | Julio E. Celis | The Danish Cancer Society, Copenhagen, Denmark |
2000-2004 | Thomas L. Benjamin | Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, MA, USA |
1992-2004 | Albert Aguayo | McGill University, Montreal, Canada |
2001-2002 | Paul Herrling | Novartis Corporate Research, Basel, Switzerland |
1997-2002 | Richard Flavell | John Innes Centre, UK |
1998-2001 | Michel Caboche | Laboratoire de biologie des semences, INRA, Versailles Cedex, France |
1996-2001 | Bert Sakmann | Max Planck Institute of Medical Research, Heidelberg, Germany |
2000 | Ben J. Miflin | Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, UK |
1998-2000 | Denis Duboule | EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland |
1992-1998 | Michael Berridge | The Babraham Institute, Cambridge, UK |
1988-1998 | Milton Schlesinger | Washington University, St. Louis, USA |
1995-1997 | Walter Schaffner | University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland |
1991-1997 | Heinz Saedler | Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Cologne, Germany |
1991-1996 | Adrienne Clarke | University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia |
1989-1995 | Ruth Sager | Harvard University, Cambridge, USA |
1989-1994 | Avram Hershko | Technion, Haifa, Israel |
1989-1994 | Ueli Schibler | University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland |
1987-1991 | Hans Thönen | Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology, Martinsried, Germany |
1985-1991 | John Fincham | Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK |
1980-1991 | Diter von Wettstein | Washington State University, Pullman, USA |
1988-1990 | Luis Glaser | University of Miami, Miami, USA |
1986-1988 | Arthur B. Pardee | Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, USA |
1985-1986 | Walter Schaffner | University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland |
1983-1986 | Howard Green | Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA |
1979-1985 | Eric M. Shooter | Stanford University, Stanford, USA |
1976-1984 | Edmond H. Fischer | University of Washington, Seattle, USA |
1979-1983 | Walter Gehring | Biozentrum, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland |
1976-1981 | Sir Michael G.P. Stocker | Imperial Cancer research Fund Laboratories, London, UK |
1976-1980 | Efraim Racker | Cornell University, Ithaca, USA |
1976-1980 | Howard V. Rickenberg | National Jewish Hospital and Research Center, Denver, USA |
1977-1978 | Charles Weissmann | Institut für Molekularbiologie der Universität Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland |