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Judith Zaugg Professor of Molecular Medicine
The University Council has appointed Prof. Dr. Judith Zaugg as Professor of Molecular Medicine at the Department of Biomedicine (DBM) of the Faculty of Medicine. Zaugg researches how cells integrate genetic and epigenetic information with signals from their microenvironment and how these different levels of information contribute to disease phenotypes.
The 40-year-old studied chemical biology at ETH Zurich and obtained a doctorate in computational biology at the University of Cambridge and the European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) in 2011. She then spent two years as a postdoc at Stanford University. In 2014, she joined EMBL Heidelberg as a group leader, where she currently works in the Structural and Computational Biology Unit. Since 2018, she has also headed a group in the Molecular Medicine Partnership Unit, a joint venture between EMBL and Heidelberg University Hospital. She will take up her professorships on September 1, 2024.
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