Prof. Dr. Markus Stoffel

Markus Stoffel has been Full Professor of the Institute of Molecular Health Sciences at the ETH Zurich since July 2006.

Markus Stoffel was born on March 13, 1962, in Cologne, Germany and studied Medicine at the Universities of Cambridge, UK, and Bonn, Germany. After a two-year residency in Internal Medicine at the University Medical Center in Hamburg, he spent three years as a postdoctoral fellow and Assistant Professor in the laboratory of Prof. G.I. Bell at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at the University of Chicago, USA. In 1995 he moved to the Rockefeller University as an Assistant Professor and Head of Laboratory of Metabolic Diseases. In 1999, he was appointed full Professor. His research interests focus on molecular mechanisms regulating glucose and lipid homeostasis, insulin secretion and signaling by transcriptional and posttranscriptional mechanisms. Markus Stoffel received several honors for his work, including the Irma T. Hirschl Career Scientist Award (1996), Pew Scholar Award in Biomedical Sciences (1996), Career Development Award, American Diabetes Association (1997), Bristol Myers Squibb Award in Metabolism (2002), Ernst Klenk Award (2002), ADA Oustanding Scientific Achievement Award (2006), Minkowski Prize (2007), JDRF Scholar Award (2007), Heinrich-Wieland Prize (2008), ERC Advanced Grant (2009), G.B. Morgagni Prize (2012), Labhart-Schwyzer Medal (2023). He is an elected Member of the German National Academy of Science Leopoldina (since 2006) and the European Molecular Biology Organization EMBO (since 2008).