Contact
9-123 Smilow
3400 Civic Center Blvd
Philadelphia, PA 19104
NICOLAS PLACHTA
William Richard Gordon President’s Distinguished Professor in Genetics
Appointments
2021 William Richard Gordon President’s Distinguished Professor in Genetics
Department of Cell and Developmental Biology
Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
2019 Associate Professor, Department of Cell and Developmental Biology
Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
2019 Chih-Ye Visiting Professor, State Key Lab of Stem Cell and Reproductive Biology
Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
2019 Research Director, Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, ASTAR, Singapore
2015 Senior PI, Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, ASTAR, Singapore
2011 Group Leader, EMBL Australia, Monash University, Australia
2008 Postdoct (Scott Fraser lab), Caltech
2003 PhD student (Yves-Alain Barde lab), Biozentrum, University of Basel
Honors
2022 American Society for Reproductive Medicine Camrat Nezhat Lecture
2019 American Society for Reproductive Medicine Camrat Nezhat Lecture
2017 Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) International Scholar
2016 American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) Gibco-Emerging Leader Prize
2015 EMBO Young Investigator
2015 ASTAR Investigatorship (Singapore)
2014 Viertel Foundation Senior Medical Research Fellowship (Australia)
2014 NHMRC Career Development Fellowship (Australia)
2012 ARC Discovery Early Career Award (Australia)
2014 Centenary Institute Lawrence Creative Prize Finalist (Australia)
2009 California Institute of Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) Grant (USA)
2008 EMBO Postdoctoral Fellowship