A world-leading Scientific Advisory Board supports SYGNIS since the company started its operations in 1997. The members of the board, among them two Nobel Prize laureates, provide valuable contributions to the company’s Products activities.
The “founding father of molecular biology” (New York Times) is Director and President of the Molecular Sciences Institute at the UC Berkeley. A member of the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California, Prof. Brenner established the existence of messenger RNA and demonstrated how the order of amino acids in proteins is determined. For his groundbreaking work in establishing C. elegans as a model organism, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 2002.
Dr. Worley is Professor of Neuroscience and Neurology at Johns Hopkins University, a world-leading School of Medicine, where his laboratory at the Department of Neuroscience pioneered methods of differential cloning from stimulated brain. This research provides insights into how brain activity effects long term changes of synaptic functions.
As acting director of the Max-Planck-Institute for Medical Research in Heidelberg, Professor Sakmann is based close to Axaron. He has won many highly regarded awards including the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1991. As an outstanding neurobiologist, Dr. Sakmann revolutionized the field of electrophysiology.
Prof. Seeburg had a strong impact on the development of the biotech industry by cloning the human growth hormone at Genentech, where he spent approximately one decade. During this time, he delivered fundamental contributions in molecular endocrinology and neurobiology. Since 1996 he is Director of the Department for Molecular Neuroscience at the Max-Planck-Institute for Medical Research and Professor of Molecular Biology, University of Heidelberg.