Department Schaefer

Full Professor (Mount Sinai, New York) Dr. Anne Schaefer

Anne Schaefer

Director

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
The Rockefeller University, New York, NY.
Research Advisors: Dr. Michel Nussenzweig (The Rockefeller University, NY), Dr. Ralf Ignatius (Charité, Berlin)

Education

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