Dirk Schübeler appointed as new FMI Director

Professor Dirk Schübeler has been appointed as the next Director of the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research. Schübeler has been a group leader at the FMI since 2003 and is an internationally renowned scientific leader in the field of gene regulation. He has been leading the institute as co-Director ad interim together with Silvia Arber since March 2019. Born in Germany, Schübeler obtained his PhD from the Technical University in Braunschweig, Germany, working with Jürgen Bode. He then worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the Hutchinson Cancer Center in Seattle, USA, with Mark Groudine. In 2003 he became a group leader at the FMI and since 2011 has also been an adjunct professor at the University of Basel. Dirk Schübeler's research focuses on understanding gene regulation and the function of chromatin.