Simon Fisher | |
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Born | Simon E. Fisher 19 August 1970 [4] |
Alma mater |
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Awards | Crick Lecture (2008) |
Scientific career | |
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Thesis | Positional cloning of the gene responsible for dent's disease (1995) |
Doctoral advisor | Ian W. Craig [2] |
Other academic advisors | Anthony Monaco |
Doctoral students | Sonja Vernes [3] |
Website |
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Simon E. Fisher (born 1970) is a British geneticist and neuroscientist who has pioneered research into the genetic basis of human speech and language. [1] [5] [6] He is a director of the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics and Professor of language and genetics at the Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour in Nijmegen, The Netherlands. [4] [7]
Fisher was an undergraduate student at Trinity Hall, Cambridge where he read Natural Sciences. He was a postgraduate student at St. Catherine's College, Oxford [2] where he was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy degree from the University of Oxford in 1995 for research on positional cloning of the gene responsible for Dent's disease supervised by Ian W. Craig . [2]
Following his DPhil, he was a postdoctoral researcher in Anthony Monaco's laboratory at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics in Oxford.
Fisher is the co-discoverer of FOXP2, the first gene to be implicated in a human speech and language disorder. [8] [9] [10] His subsequent research has used FOXP2 and other language-related genes [11] as molecular windows into neural pathways critical for language. [12]
Awards and prizes in recognition of his work include the Francis Crick Lecture in 2008 [13] and the inaugural Eric Kandel Young Neuroscientists Prize in 2009. [14] [15]
Simon Fisher | |
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![]() Fisher in 2010 | |
Born | Simon E. Fisher 19 August 1970 [4] |
Alma mater |
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Awards | Crick Lecture (2008) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | |
Thesis | Positional cloning of the gene responsible for dent's disease (1995) |
Doctoral advisor | Ian W. Craig [2] |
Other academic advisors | Anthony Monaco |
Doctoral students | Sonja Vernes [3] |
Website |
www |
Simon E. Fisher (born 1970) is a British geneticist and neuroscientist who has pioneered research into the genetic basis of human speech and language. [1] [5] [6] He is a director of the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics and Professor of language and genetics at the Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour in Nijmegen, The Netherlands. [4] [7]
Fisher was an undergraduate student at Trinity Hall, Cambridge where he read Natural Sciences. He was a postgraduate student at St. Catherine's College, Oxford [2] where he was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy degree from the University of Oxford in 1995 for research on positional cloning of the gene responsible for Dent's disease supervised by Ian W. Craig . [2]
Following his DPhil, he was a postdoctoral researcher in Anthony Monaco's laboratory at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics in Oxford.
Fisher is the co-discoverer of FOXP2, the first gene to be implicated in a human speech and language disorder. [8] [9] [10] His subsequent research has used FOXP2 and other language-related genes [11] as molecular windows into neural pathways critical for language. [12]
Awards and prizes in recognition of his work include the Francis Crick Lecture in 2008 [13] and the inaugural Eric Kandel Young Neuroscientists Prize in 2009. [14] [15]