Orlando D. Schärer
Orlando D. Schärer | |
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| Alma mater | Harvard University, ETH Zürich |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Chemical biology, molecular biology, cell biology |
| Institutions | University of Pittsburgh, Institute for Basic Science UNIST Stony Brook University University of Zürich |
| Thesis | A chemical approach toward understanding base excision DNA repair enzymes (1996) |
| Doctoral advisors | Gregory L. Verdine |
| Other academic advisors | Duilio Arigoni, Roland Kanaar, Jan Hoeijmakers |
| Website | Faculty page |
Orlando David Schärer is a Swiss chemist and biologist researching DNA repair, genomic integrity, and cancer biology. Schärer has taught biology, chemistry and pharmacology at various university levels on three continents. He is a distinguished professor at the Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) and an associate director of the IBS Center for Genomic Integrity located in Ulsan, South Korea. He leads the three interdisciplinary research teams in the Chemical & Cancer Biology Branch of the center and specifically heads the Cancer Therapeutics Mechanisms Section.