Biography

Ueli Suter is Professor for Cell Biology in the Department of Biology of the ETH Zürich.

Ueli Suter studied Biology II at the Biocenter of the University of Basel where he also obtained his Ph.D. in 1988, working on the Molecular Mechanisms of Allergies in connection with an industrial dissertation in the research laboratories of Ciba-Geigy (now NOVARTIS). He then moved to Stanford University Medical School where he became interested in Molecular and Cellular Neurobiology, in particular in Neurotrophin Signaling and Processing. In 1993, he was appointed to the ETH Zürich.

The current focus of the research of Ueli Suter concerns the fundamental principles of Neuron-Glia Interactions during the development, maintenance, plasticity and repair of the nervous system, with a particular emphasis on the mechanisms regulating Myelination in health and disease. His interests extend further into the fundamental mechanisms guiding the biology of neural progenitor cells and stem cells.