Background
Tuschl was born in Altdorf bei Nürnberg.
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Thomas Tuschl
Edit Profilebiochemist university professor molecular biologist
Education
After graduating in Chemistry from Regensburg University, Tuschl received his Doctor of Philosophy in 1995 from the Max Planck Institute for Experimental Medicine in Göttingen.
Career
He spent four years as a post-doctoral fellow at the Whitehead Institute of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) in Cambridge, United States of America. In 1999 he returned to Göttingen, to continue his research at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry. There he received international recognition in Genetics for his studies of Ribonucleic acid interference in collaboration with the laboratory of Klaus Weber. This enables "switching off" certain genes by introducing synthetic short Ribonucleic acid into the cell.
The messenger of Ribonucleic Acid is destroyed and the gene in deactivated.
Possible future applications of this method include treatment of tumors or genetic disorders. The function of certain genes can be studied more easily.
Ribonucleic acid interference is a major step in genetics. In 2003 Tuschl became professor and head of laboratory at Rockefeller University in New York, where he continues his research.
He is looking into microRNA, small Ribonucleic acid-sections, which are formed by the cells and cause Ribonucleic acid interference like introduced synthetic Ribonucleic acid-strains.
Achievements
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Tuschl received several national and international awards for his work: 2008: Ernst Jung Prize 2007: Max Delbrück Medal, Berlin 2005: Ernst Schering Prize, Berlin 2005: Meyenburg Prize, Heidelberg 2005: Doctor Albert Wander Gedenk Prize, Bern, Schweiz 2003: Mayor"s Award for Excellence in Science and Technology, New York, United States of America 2003: Company-recipient (with Craig Mello, Andrew Fire and David Baulcombe) of the Wiley Prize in the Biomedical Sciences, The Wiley Foundation, United States of America 2003: Newcomb Cleveland Prize, American Association for the Advancement of Science, United States of America 2002: Eppendorf Young Investigator Award, Hamburg 2002: Otto-Klung-Weberbank-Preis for Chemistry and Physics, Berlin.
Membership
German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina.
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Nationality
Germany
Awards
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Max Delbrück Medal; Ernst Jung Prize; Schering Prize; Meyenburg Prize; national and international awards; Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Tuschl received several national and international awards for his work: 2008: Ernst Jung Prize 2007: Max Delbrück Medal, Berlin 2005: Ernst Schering Prize, Berlin 2005: Meyenburg Prize, Heidelberg 2005: Dr. Albert Wander Gedenk Prize, Bern, Schweiz 2003: Mayor's Award for Excellence in Science and Technology, New York, USA 2003: Co-recipient (with Craig Mello, Andrew Fire and David Baulcombe) of the Wiley Prize in the Biomedical Sciences, The Wiley Foundation, USA 2003: Newcomb Cleveland Prize, American Association for the Advancement of Science, USA 2002: Eppendorf Young Investigator Award, Hamburg 2002: Otto-Klung-Weberbank-Preis for Chemistry and Physics, Berlin The Ernst Jung Prize is a prize awarded annually for excellence in biomedical sciences.; The Meyenburg Prize is awarded for outstanding achievements in cancer research by the Meyenburg Foundation in support of the German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg (DKFZ), which is the largest biomedical research institution in Germany.; The Max Delbrück Medal has been awarded annually since 1992 by the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine.Max Delbrück Medal; Ernst Jung Prize; Schering Prize; Meyenburg Prize; national and international awards; Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Tuschl received several national and international awards for his work: 2008: Ernst Jung Prize 2007: Max Delbrück Medal, Berlin 2005: Ernst Schering Prize, Berlin 2005: Meyenburg Prize, Heidelberg 2005: Dr. Albert Wander Gedenk Prize, Bern, Schweiz 2003: Mayor's Award for Excellence in Science and Technology, New York, USA 2003: Co-recipient (with Craig Mello, Andrew Fire and David Baulcombe) of the Wiley Prize in the Biomedical Sciences, The Wiley Foundation, USA 2003: Newcomb Cleveland Prize, American Association for the Advancement of Science, USA 2002: Eppendorf Young Investigator Award, Hamburg 2002: Otto-Klung-Weberbank-Preis for Chemistry and Physics, Berlin The Ernst Jung Prize is a prize awarded annually for excellence in biomedical sciences.; The Meyenburg Prize is awarded for outstanding achievements in cancer research by the Meyenburg Foundation in support of the German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg (DKFZ), which is the largest biomedical research institution in Germany.; The Max Delbrück Medal has been awarded annually since 1992 by the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine.