Prof. Dr. Timm Schroeder
Prof. Dr. Timm Schroeder
Full Professor at the Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering
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Timm Schroeder investigates the molecular control of mammalian stem and progenitor cell fate decisions at the interface of molecular cell biology, medicine, and hard- / soft-ware engineering. He has pioneered bioimaging approaches for long-term single cell observations, enabling answers to long standing questions in stem cell research with a focus on hematopoiesis, pluripotent stem cells and their differentiation and bone biology. His work combines cell and molecular biology, genetics, imaging, engineering, software development, statistics and computational mathematical modelling. Ultimate goal is an improved understanding of the molecular mechanisms underlying stem and progenitor cell behaviour in health and disease, and the development of novel therapies in regenerative medicine.
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Timm Schroeder was born in South Africa and grew up in Germany. He studied Biology at Erlangen University, Germany, and received his PhD in 2001 for thesis work at the GSF – National Research Center for Environment and Health in Munich, Germany, and research visits at Kyoto University, Japan. He continued as a postdoc in the same institute with research visits at Kyoto and Harvard Universities. 2002 to 2004, he was an independent visiting scientist at the RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology in Kobe, Japan. In late 2004, Timm started his independent group at the Institute of Stem Cell Research (deputy director since 2006), Helmholtz Center Munich – German Research Center for Environmental Health. He received tenure in 2009, and became director of the research unit Stem Cell Dynamics in 2011. He joined the ETH Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering as full professor for Cell Systems Dynamics in summer 2013.
Timm Schroeder investigates the molecular control of mammalian stem cell fate decisions at the interface of molecular cell biology, stem cell research, medicine and informatics. He has pioneered bioimaging approaches for long-term single cell observations, enabling answers to long standing questions in stem cell research. His work combines cell and molecular biology, genetics, imaging, engineering, software development, statistics and computational mathematical modelling. Ultimate goal is an improved understanding of the molecular mechanisms underlying stem cell behaviour in health and disease, and the development of novel therapies in regenerative medicine.
His honors include the international T. Ray Bradley New Investigator Award 2001 and the international McCullogh and Till Award 2012 of the International Society for Experimental Hematology (ISEH), the German Erwin Schrödinger Prize 2017 - The Stifterverband Science Award for interdisciplinary research by the Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres (shared with Drs. Theis and Marr, Munich, Germany, and Dr. Haghverdi, Cambridge, UK), and the Swiss Cloëtta Prize 2018. Timm was elected ISEH President 2016/17.