Curriculum Vitae

Prof. Brenda Schulman, Ph.D.

Prof. Brenda Schulman, Ph.D.

Director
Molecular Machines and Signaling
Since 2018
Honorary Professor
Department of Chemistry, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany
Since 2017
Director and Scientific Member
Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry (primary appoinment), Martinsried, Germany
Since 2017
Adjunct Faculty
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, USA
2016
Director
Department of Molecular Machines and Signaling, Max-Planck-Institute of Biochemistry, Martinsried, Germany (secondary appointment)
2005 - 2017
Investigator
Howard Hughes Medical Institute, USA
2001 - 2017
Faculty
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, USA
1998 - 2001
Postdoctoral Fellow
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York,NY, USA; Advisor: Nikola P. Pavletich
1996 - 1998
Postdoctoral Fellow
Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center, Boston, MA, USA Advisor: Ed Harlow
1989 - 1996
Ph.D. in Biology,
M.I.T., Cambridge, MA, USA. Advisor: Peter S. Kim
1993
Visiting Scientist
University of Oxford, United Kingdom. Advisor: Christopher M. Dobson
1985 - 1989
B.A. in Biology
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA

 

Awards and Honors

2025
Feldberg Prize for Anglo-German Scientific Exchange
2023
ERC Advanced Grant
2023
Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine
2019
Ernst Jung Prize for Medicine
2019
elected to Leopoldina
2019
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize
2018
Boerhaave Chair Honorary Visiting Professorship, University of Leiden
2018
ERC Advanced Grant
2018
elected to EMBO
2016
Vallee Visiting Professorship Award
2014
Joseph Simone Endowed Chair in Basic Research, St. Jude
2014
MERIT Award, National Institute of General Medical Sciences
2014
elected to National Academy of Sciences
2012
elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
2011
Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Award from The Protein Society
2005
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
2004
Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers
2004
Beckman Young Investigator Award
2002
Pew Scholar in Biomedical Sciences
2000
Leukemia and Lymphoma Society Special Fellow
1996
Life Sciences Research Foundation Fellow
1989
National Science Foundation Predoctoral Fellow
1989
McElroy Award from the Johns Hopkins University
1988
Phi Beta Kappa
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