An Assistant Professor promoted as Associate Professor
After a brilliant nomination's lesson in May 2024, Miriam Stoeber was promoted as Associate Professor in the Department of Cell Physiology and Metabolism from the University of Geneva.
Miriam Stoeber is a specialist in transmembrane signalling and the functional analysis of membrane proteins. She has worked at ETH Zurich and Oxford University, where she studied the assembly and structure of transport proteins using molecular and structural biology, and at the University of California, San Francisco, where she investigated the cellular functions of G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs). There, she initiated her research on opioid receptor signalling pathways, which transmit the effects of painkillers such as morphine and fentanyl, as well as neuropeptides.
Awardee of an SNSF Eccellenza professorial fellowship, she was appointed assistant professor in the Department of Cell Physiology and Metabolism at the UNIGE Faculty of Medicine in 2019. The research of her team focuses on decoding GPCR responses in distinct cellular locations and employs state-of-the-art methods to visualise signalling events in living cells with unmet resolution. The team also develops novel nanobody-based ligands that target and modulate GPCRs with high selectivity.
Miriam Stoeber is a holder of the FEBS Excellence Award and she became an EMBO Young Investigator in January 2024. In July 2024, she has been promoted to Associate Professor at UNIGE.