Jürg Bähler

Jürg Bähler was born and raised in Switzerland. He did his studies and PhD research in genetics and cell biology at the University of Bern. After short stays as a Research Associate in Switzerland and Japan, he worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow with John Pringle at the University of North Carolina and with Paul Nurse at Imperial Cancer Research Fund. 

In 2000, Jürg established his independent laboratory at the Wellcome Sanger Institute. He was appointed as Professor of Systems Biology at University College London (UCL) in 2009, and as Director of UCL’s Institute of Healthy Ageing in 2019. In 2025, Jürg’s laboratory started the Secondment at the Francis Crick Institute.

Jürg was elected as an EMBO member (2010) and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology (2011). He received the Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award (2011), a Leverhulme International Academic Fellowship (2019), an ERC Advanced Grant (2024), and Wellcome Investigator and Discovery Awards (2011 and 2024).