Claudio Daniel Stern | |
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| Born | (1954-02-09)February 9, 1954 (age 72) Montevideo, Uruguay |
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| Fields | Biology |
| Website | www |
Claudio Daniel Stern (born 9 February 1954 inMontevideo,Uruguay) is a British-Uruguayan biologist currently working atUniversity College London (UCL).
Stern received his primary (Escuela Evaristo Ciganda) and secondary (Liceo Suarez and Lycée Français) education in Montevideo, Uruguay, and started to study Medicine in 1971. In 1972 he moved to the United Kingdom and took a BSc (Hons) in Biological Sciences at theUniversity of Sussex, where he remained for his PhD (1978), under the supervision ofBrian Goodwin. He then moved to the Department of Anatomy and Developmental Biology atUniversity College London for postdoctoral training with Ruth Bellairs, a noted embryologist.[1][2]
Following his postdoctoral training, Stern held a University Demonstrator-ship in Anatomy at theUniversity of Cambridge (1984–85) before being appointed Lecturer in the Department of Human Anatomy at theUniversity of Oxford, and Student (College Fellow) ofChrist Church (1985-1994). In 1994 he was recruited as Chairman of the Department of Genetics and Development atColumbia University in New York. He returned to the UK in 2001 as the "J Z Young" Professor and Head of the Department of Anatomy and Developmental Biology back at University College London. Among many activities he is currently a member of Scientific Council ofInstitut Pasteur in Paris (since 2012)[3] and was President of theInternational Society of Developmental Biologists (ISDB) from January 2010 to December 2013.
Stern's research is on the processes that establish cell diversity and pattern at early stages of development in vertebrate embryos.
Stern was awarded a Doctor of Science (DSc) in Physiological Sciences from the University of Oxford (1993) and has been elected aFellow of the Royal Society of Biology (FRSB) (2008), of the Academy of Medical Sciences (FMedSci) (2001), of the Royal Society (FRS) (2008),[4] a member ofEMBO (2002) and of theAcademia Europaea (2013), and Foreign Member (Miembro Correspondiente) of the Latin-American Academy of Sciences] (ACAL) (2002) and Foreign Honorary Member of theAmerican Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS).[5] In 2006 he was awarded theWaddington Medal of the British Society for Developmental Biology. In 2023 he was elected as a Foreign Member ("miembro correspondiente") of theNational Academy of Sciences of Uruguay (ANCIU). He has also given numerous plenary, keynote and named lectures at international meetings.
He was awarded theRoss Harrison Prize for 2017 by theInternational Society of Developmental Biologists.[6]
Stern has published about 200 scientific articles[7][8] and several books including an important comprehensive book about gastrulation, "Gastrulation: from cells to embryo" (2004)[9] and the widely used laboratory manual "Essential Developmental Biology: a practical approach" (withPeter W. H. Holland, 1993).[10]
