Born in the United States, Nadia Rosenthal was awarded a PhD in 1981
from Harvard Medical School and trained as a postdoctoral fellow at the
National Institutes of Health. After holding academic research posts in
Boston at Children’s Hospital and Boston University School of Medicine
she moved to the Cardiovascular Research Center at Harvard Medical
School, where she directed a biomedical research laboratory at the
Massachusetts General Hospital. She co-edited the definitive text Heart
Development and served for a decade on the editorial staff at the New
England Journal of Medicine, where she was Consultant of Molecular
Medicine and editor of the Molecular Medicine series.
Professor
Rosenthal’s research focuses on developmental genetics of heart and
skeletal muscle, the molecular biology of ageing and the role of growth
factors and stem cells in tissue regeneration. Since her 2001 arrival
in Europe to become Head of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory
(EMBL) Mouse Biology Unit in Rome, she has been awarded EMBO membership,
and the Ferrari-Soave Prize in Cell Biology. She has served on numerous
international grant review committees, advisory panels and editorial
boards and coordinates several major EU consortia on mouse genetics and
disease models. In 2005
Professor Rosenthal established a Partnership between EMBL and Imperial
Collage London, where she holds a Professorship of Cardiovascular
Science and co-directs the Harefield Heart Science Centre with Sir
Magdi Yacoub.
As part of a longstanding relationship with the
Australian research community, Professor Rosenthal is a member of the
Australia and New Zealand Society for Cell and Developmental Biology,
for whom she designed the prestigious ANZSCDB Presidents Medal. She has
been a faculty member of the Australian Developmental Biology Workshop
and is also a Visiting Professor at University of Western Australia.
She
spearheaded the election of Australia to EMBL as its first Associate
Member, is the Founding Director of the Australian Regenerative Medicine Institute at Monash University and
holds an Australia Fellowship.
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