Martin Egli

A. Education and Training

ETH-Zürich, Switzerland

Diploma

09/1984

Chemistry

ETH-Zürich, Switzerland

Ph.D.

10/1988

Chem. Crystallography

MIT, Cambridge MA

Postdoc

03/1992

Structural Biology

B. Employment and Positions

2005 - Professor, Dept. of Biochemistry, Vanderbilt University, School of Medicine, Nashville, TN

2003-2004 Assoc. Prof., Dept. of Biochemistry, Vanderbilt University, School of Medicine, Nashville, TN

2000-2003 Assoc. Professor, Dept. of Biological Sciences, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN

1995-1999 Asst. Professor, Dept. of Molec. Pharm. & Biol. Chem., Northwestern University, Chicago, IL

1992-1995 Lecturer and Habilitand, Organic Chemistry Laboratory, ETH-Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

1989-1992 Postdoctoral Fellow, Prof. Alexander Rich, Dept. of Biology, M.I.T., Cambridge, MA

1985-1988 Ph.D. student, advisors Profs. Jack D. Dunitz and Vladimir Prelog – Nobelist Chemistry 1975, Organic Chemistry Laboratory, ETH-Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

C. Selected Honors

2023 Elected as member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts

2013 Alexander Rich Award, Dept. of Biology, MIT

2011-2013 WCU Professor, Biophysics & Chem. Biol. Department, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea

2009 Elected AAAS Fellow (Chemistry section)

2006 Visiting Professor, Dept. of Chemistry, Oxford University, Oxford, UK

2005 Visiting Professor, Dept. of Chemistry, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea

2005 Vanderbilt Chancellor Award for Research (KaiABC circadian clock)

D. Contributions to Science

Published work to date includes some 300 refereed papers and reviews and two books: Egli, M., Herdewijn, P., Eds., Chemistry and Biology of Artificial Nucleic Acids, Wiley-VCH Publishers, Weinheim, Germany, 2012; and Blackburn, G.M., Egli, M., Gait, M.J., Watts, J.K., Eds., Nucleic Acids in Chemistry and Biology, 4. ed., R. Soc. Chem., Cambridge, UK, 2022.

February 2025