Jonathan Hall, PhD

Full Professor at ETH Zurich

Speaker

Jonathan Hall received his Ph.D. in chemistry at Imperial College in London. He did post-doctoral work at L’Université Loius Pasteur in Strasbourg and at Harvard University in Cambridge. He joined the nucleic acids section at Ciba Central Research Labs in Basel in 1992 and in 2000 he headed the group. In the following six years his group established high-throughput oligonucleotide synthesis and genome-wide screening using siRNAs. Together with the Neuroscience Department they developed methods to use RNAi in vivo which resulted in therapeutic effects of siRNAs in rat models of pain. In 2007 he joined the Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences at the ETH as Professor of Pharmaceutical Chemistry and in 2012 he served as Chairman of the Institute. A principal goal of his group is to help bring RNA as a drug and a target into mainstream pharmaceutical research.