Hernan Lopez-Schier
Hernán López-Schier | |
|---|---|
| Personal details | |
| Alma mater | University of Cambridge |
| Profession | Biomedical scientist |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Developmental biology Neuroscience |
| Institutions | The Rockefeller University University of Cambridge Centre for Genomic Regulation Harvard University National Institute of Genetics Helmholtz Center Munich New York University Abu Dhabi |
| Thesis | (2002) |
| Doctoral advisor | Daniel St Johnston |
Dr. Hernán López-Schier is a developmental biologist and neuroscientist known for his work on sensory biology and organ regeneration.[1] He is an associate faculty at the Graduate School of Quantitative Biology at LMU Munich, Germany,[2] and visiting professor at the New York University Abu Dhabi,[3] UAE.
Education
Lopez-Schier trained in molecular genetics at the Rockefeller University in New York City. In 1997, he moved to the University of Cambridge to pursue a PhD in genetics and cell biology at the Gurdon Institute under the mentorship of Daniel St Johnston, FRS.
Career
After his PhD, Lopez-Schier joined the group of Kavli Prize laureate A. James Hudspeth as a Postdoctoral Fellow, funded by the Wellcome Trust and the Life Sciences Research Foundation as Howard Hughes Medical Institute fellow.[4] In 2007, he moved to the Centre for Genomic Regulation in Barcelona, Spain, as junior group leader,[5] funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation and an award by the European Research Council.[6] In 2011–2016 he chaired a Research Networking Program from the European Science Foundation.[7] Between 2012 and 2023 he was research unit director at the Helmholtz Zentrum München, and member of the Graduate School of Systemic Neurosciences at LMU Munich, Germany.[8] Other academic positions were as Visiting Scholar at the National Institute of Genetics in Mishima, Japan in 2008 and 2019, Visiting Scientist at the Janelia Research Campus[9] in 2014, Visiting Professor at Harvard University, and member of the Professional Development Committee at the Society for Neuroscience[10] from 2020 to 2023. He has served at scientific review panels for Austrian, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Swiss and British government agencies, and is a member of the Project Evaluation Committee of the EMBL Imaging Centre.[11] In 2019, he was appointed to the Scientific Advisory Board of the biotechnology company Sensorion.[12]
His group has made a significant contribution to sensory regeneration, having been the first to use optogenetics to repair damaged neurons,[13] and the first to identify the source of hair-cell regeneration.[14] As of 2023, he has an H-index of 29.
References
- ^ "Hernán López-Schier". scholar.google.com.
- ^ "Staff – Graduate school of Quantitative Biosciences Munich".
- ^ Dhabi, NYU Abu. "Hernan Lopez-Schier". New York University Abu Dhabi.
- ^ "Alumni". Life Sciences Research Foundation.
- ^ "Hernán López-Schier | alumni.crg.eu". alumni.crg.eu.
- ^ "ERC STARTING GRANT COMPETITION 2007 - Results" (PDF). erc.europa.eu.
- ^ "Centre for Genomic Regulation Website". crg.eu.
- ^ "Hernán Lopez-Schier - Graduate School of Systemic Neurosciences GSN-LMU - LMU Munich". gsn.uni-muenchen.de.
- ^ Kresge, Nicole. "Microscopes for the Masses". hhmi.org.
- ^ "Member Details". my.sfn.org.
- ^ "Project Evaluation Committee".
- ^ "Sensorion appoints five renowned experts to its Scientific Advisory Board". businesswire.com. 2020-07-29.
- ^ "Bright prospects: Repairing neurons with light".
- ^ López-Schier, Hernán; Hudspeth, A. J. (2006). "A two-step mechanism underlies the planar polarization of regenerating sensory hair cells". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 103 (49): 18615–18620. Bibcode:2006PNAS..10318615L. doi:10.1073/pnas.0608536103. PMC 1656970. PMID 17124170.