Davor Solter (born March 22, 1941[citation needed]) is a Yugoslavian-borndevelopmental biologist, particularly known for his pioneering work on mammaliangenomic imprinting. He is Emeritus Member and Director,Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics; Visiting International Professor, Siriraj Center for Excellence in Stem Cell Research,Mahidol University, Thailand; and Visiting Professor,University of Zagreb Medical School.
Solter was born inZagreb, Yugoslavia, in 1941. His M.D. (1965) and Ph.D. (1971) degrees are from theUniversity of Zagreb,[1] where he worked in the Departments of Anatomy and Biology of the School of Medicine (1963–73). He then moved to the United States, where he worked at theWistar Institute, Philadelphia, PA, rising to full professor in 1981. He joined theUniversity of Pennsylvania in 1982, becoming the Wistar Professor of Biology in 1984.[2] He directed theMax Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics inFreiburg, Germany, from 1991 to 2006.[2][3] In 2008 he moved to Singapore, where worked at theNational University of Singapore (in association withDuke University; 2008–13) and also served as research director of the Institute of Medical Biology,A*STAR. In 2014 he moved to Thailand, where as of 2018 he holds a visiting professorship atMahidol University,Bangkok.[1]
In 1998 he received theMarch of Dimes Prize in Developmental Biology "For pioneering the concept of gene imprinting".[4] He won theRosenstiel Award in 2006, with Surani andMary Lyon, for "pioneering work on epigenetic gene regulation in mammalian embryos".[5] In 2018, he was a recipient of theCanada Gairdner International Award, withAzim Surani, "For the discovery of mammalian genomic imprinting that causes parent-of-origin specific gene expression and its consequences for development and disease."[6] For 2026 he is awarded thePaul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize for the discovery of the genomic imprinting.[7]
He is an elected or honorary member of theAcademia Europaea (1992),European Molecular Biology Organization (1994),American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1994) and the Japanese Biochemical Society (1995).[2]
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