Sylvia Erhardt

Sylvia Erhardt, PhD
ZMBH, DKFZ-ZMBH Alliance, CellNetworks
Ruprecht-Karls University of Heidelberg
Im Neuenheimer Feld 282, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
S.Erhardt@zmbh.uni-heidelberg.de
++49 (0)6221 546898 (phone), ++49 (0)6221 545892 (fax)

SCIENTIFIC VITA
1998 Diploma thesis at the University of Heidelberg with Prof. Renato Paro
1999-2003 PhD at the University of Cambridge (UK) with Prof. Azim Surani
2003-2007 Postdoc, University of Berkeley, CA (USA) with Prof. Gary Karpen
2008-2016 Independent junior group leader of the Excellence cluster CellNetworks
at the ZMBH, University of Heidelberg and DKFZ-ZMBH Alliance.
Since 2017 W2 Professorship (6 year term) at the University of Heidelberg.

FIELDS OF INTEREST
Centromeric chromatin and chromosome segregation in normal cells and tumors, Epigenetics, DNA damage repair, and Non-coding RNAs, RNA and protein modifications

AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS
2016 Performance award from the University of Heidelberg
2015 ERC Consolidator grant (activation date: July 2016)
2015 Hella Bühler Prize for Cancer research from the University of Heidelberg
2007 Pathway of Independence grant from the NIH, USA (not activated)
2003-2006 Wellcome Trust International Post-doc Research Fellowship, UK
2002 Darwin Travel Award, Cambridge, UK
1999-2002 Ph.D.-fellowship of the Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds, Germany
1998 Diploma with distinction, University of Heidelberg, Germany