Carmen Birchmeier
Carmen Birchmeier-Kohler, is a German geneticist and developmental biologist. The focus of her research group is the development of embryonic tissues and the nervous system. The model organism for her investigations is the mouse.
Life and work
Birchmeier studied biochemistry at the University of Konstanz, the University of California, San Diego and the ETH Zurich from 1974 to 1979. She completed her PhD thesis with Max Birnstiel in 1984 at the Institute of Molecular Biology II at the University of Zurich. After a stay abroad as a postdoctoral fellow with Michael Wigler and as a scientist at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory on Long Island from 1984 to 1989, she took over the direction of a working group in the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research in Cologne. There she completed her habilitation in 1993.Since 1995 she works at the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in Berlin. In 2002 she received a C4-professorship at the Faculty of Medicine of Freie Universität Berlin, now Charité.
Carmen Birchmeier is married to developmental biologist and cancer researcher Walter Birchmeier.