Prof. Dr. Frédéric Allain

Student and postdoctoral Fellowships:

• 2001 Howard Hughes Medical Institute postdoctoral fellowship
• Jonsson Cancer Center Foundation/UCLA postdoctoral fellowship
• 1998-99 Long Term H.F.S.P.O Postdoctoral Fellowship
• 1997 Long Term E.M.B.O Postdoctoral Fellowship
• 1990-94 4 years student fellowship from the Ecole Normale Supérieure (Paris)

Awards:

• 2009 Elected EMBO Member
• 2003 EMBO Young Investigator Award
• 2002 Laureat of the Fondation Schlumberger pour l'Education et la Recherche
• 2000 Boyer'Parvin postdoctoral recognition award 2000
• 2000 UCLA chancellor award for Postdoctoral research 2000
• 1996 Max Perutz Student Prize 1996

Academic activities:

• Member of the steering committee of the "Life Science Zurich Ph'D program" (2002-2007)
• Member of the admission committee of the "Life Science Zurich Ph'D program" (2003-2005)
• Vice-Chair of the Molecular Life Science PhD program (2004-2007)
• Member of the Editorial Board of Nucleic Acid Research (since 2006)
• Member of the advisory board for studies within the Department of Chemistry at the Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France (since 2006)
• Director of the Biomolecular Structure and Mechanism PhD program (2006-2013)
• Chairman of the Institute of Molecular Biology and Biophysics (2008)
  
• Director of the RNA Biology PhD program (since 2014)
• Co-Director NCCR RNA & Disease (since 2014)