Elly Tanaka

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Elly M. Tanaka (* 1965 in Boston , Massachusetts ) is an American biochemist at the Research Institute for Molecular Pathology , Vienna .

Tanaka is considered a leading specialist in the field of regeneration biology. Using innovative molecular biological and microscopic methods, she identified the stem cells that cause the regeneration of extremities and spinal cord in salamanders . Tanaka combines regeneration and stem cell biology and was able to make significant contributions to the molecular and cellular basis of regeneration.

Elly Tanaka earned a bachelor's degree in biochemistry from Harvard University in 1987 and a Ph.D. with Marc W. Kirschner at the University of California, San Francisco . As a postdoctoral fellow , she worked with Jeremy Brockes at University College London before taking over her first research group at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics in Dresden in 1999 . Since 2008 she has held a professorship at the Center for Regenerative Therapies Dresden (CRTD) at the Technical University of Dresden . From 2014 she was director of the CRTD before moving to the Research Institute for Molecular Pathology in Vienna in 2016 .

In 2015 Tanaka was elected a member of Academia Europaea . In 2017 she was elected a member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) and received the Ernst Schering Prize , and in 2018 the Erwin Schrödinger Prize of the Austrian Academy of Sciences . For 2020 Tanaka became the FEBS | EMBO Women in Science Award awarded. According to the Scopus database , it has an h-index of 40 (as of February 2020) .

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  1. ↑ a b Regrowing limbs and nerve damage in sight - Schering Foundation. In: scheringstiftung.de. Retrieved September 22, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Ilire Hasani, Robert Hoffmann: Academy of Europe: Tanaka Elly. In: ae-info.org. October 8, 2015, accessed September 22, 2017 .
  3. ^ Tilmann Kiessling: EMBO welcomes 65 new members. Retrieved September 27, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Andrea Bölling: How can a salamander grow back a lost leg? Schering Foundation, press release from September 13, 2017 at the Informationsdienst Wissenschaft (idw-online.de), accessed on September 22, 2017.
  5. ↑ Tilmann Kiessling: Elly Tanaka receives the FEBS | EMBO Women in Science Award 2020. EMBO, press release from February 18, 2020 at Informationsdienst Wissenschaft (idw-online.de), accessed on February 18, 2020.
  6. ↑ Tanaka, Elly M. In: scopus.com. Scopus , accessed February 18, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Tanaka, Elly
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tanaka, Elly M.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American biochemist
DATE OF BIRTH 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Boston , Massachusetts