Susan Gasser receives honorary doctorate from the University of Fribourg
Susan Gasser, professor emeritus of molecular biology at the University of Basel and former director of the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, has been awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Fribourg.
16 November 2021
With this award, the Faculty of Science and Medicine of the University of Fribourg recognizes Susan Gasser for her outstanding research as one of the world's leading epigeneticists as well as her pioneering and persistent commitment to the advancement of women in science.
As former President of the Gender Equality Commission of the Swiss National Science Foundation, she initiated the pioneering PRIMA funding instrument, which is aimed at outstanding female scientists and enables young women to reconcile family and scientific career.
For her extraordinarily successful research, the researcher has been awarded many important prizes, for example the Latsis Prize, the Otto Naegeli Prize, the Gregor Mendel Medal of the Czech Academy of Sciences and an honorary doctorate from Charles University in Prague.
The conferral of the Doctorate honoris causa took place at the Dies academicus of the University of Fribourg on November 15, 2021.
