Silvia Arber to receive the Otto Naegeli Prize 2014

Professor Silvia Arber, a neurobiologist at the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research and the Biozentrum of the University of Basel, is to receive the Otto Naegeli Prize for Medical Research. This prize is one of the most prestigious scientific awards in Switzerland. Arber is being honored for her investigations of the establishment and function of neuronal circuits. The award ceremony will be held on May 28 at the University of Basel. Silvia Arber, currently one of Switzerland's most eminent biologists, is both Senior group leader at the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research (FMI) and Professor of Neurobiology at the Biozentrum of the University of Basel. From the outset of her research career, she has sought to answer fundamental questions about how neuronal circuits are established and function. After studying biology at the Biozentrum, Arber carried out her PhD thesis in the laboratory of Professor Pico Caroni at the FMI.