Biography Anne Schaefer

Department Schaefer

Scientific Career

2021 - present Director
Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing, Cologne, Germany
2020 - present Full Professor with Tenure, Vice-Chair of Neuroscience
Co-Director, Center for Glial Biology, Departments of Neuroscience and Psychiatry, Friedman Brain Institute, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY
2018 - 2019 Associate Professor with Tenure
Co-Director, Center for Glial Biology, Departments of Neuroscience and Psychiatry, Friedman Brain Institute, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY
2016 - 2018 Associate Professor
Departments of Neuroscience and Psychiatry, Friedman Brain Institute, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY
2011 - 2016 Assistant Professor
Departments of Neuroscience and Psychiatry, Friedman Brain Institute, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY
2009 - 2011 Senior Research Associate
Lab. of Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY
2007 - 2009 Research Associate
Lab. of Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience,The Rockefeller University, New York, NY
2004 - 2007 Postdoctoral Fellow
Lab. of Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY

2001 - 2004

Visiting student USA-Scholarship of German National Academic Foundation
Research Advisors: Dr. Michel Nussenzweig (The Rockefeller University, NY), Dr. Ralf Ignatius (Charité, Berlin), The Rockefeller University, New York, NY

Education

1999 - 2004          Free University                                                                                                                          
Charité University, Berlin, Germany        
1996 - 1999 Johannes Gutenberg University
Mainz, Germany

Awards

2019  Max Planck Sabbatical Award           
2019 Vice Chair of Neuroscience - Mount Sinai, USA
2018 Inventor of the Year 2018 Award - Mount Sinai, USA
2018 Inaugural NINDS Landis Award for Outstanding Mentorship - NIH, USA
2017 Co-director, Center for Glial Biology - Mount Sinai School of Medicine, USA
2015  Harold and Golden Lamport Research Award - Mount Sinai School of Medicine, USA
2014 Kavli Frontiers in Science Fellow - The National Academy of Science, USA
2014 CURE Challenge Award - USA
2014 Technology Development Fund Award - Mount Sinai Innovation, USA
2012 NIH Director’s New Innovator Award - USA
2012 Seaver Autism Center Research Award - USA
2012 named “Chrissy Rossi Investigator”
2011 - 2013 NARSAD 2010 Young Investigator Award - USA
2006 - 2008 German Research Foundation DFG, Research Fellowship - Germany
2005 Hans-Hench Award 2005, German Society for Immunology - Germany
2004 Summa cum laude - Charité University Berlin, Germany
2001 - 2003 USA-Scholarship of The German National Academic Foundation, (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes)
1999 - 2001  The German National Academic Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes) Scholarship - Germany

Third-party
funding

06/2021 - 05/2027 European Research Council (Schaefer, Brose, Triller, Oertner MPI) - ERC Synergy Grant,  Micro-'COPS' - Microglia-control of physiological brain states
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