Walter Wahli studied biology at the University of Bern, where he completed his doctorate in 1977. He worked as a post-doc researcher at the Department of Embryology, Carnegie Institution of Washington in Baltimore, and was visiting associate at the National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health in Bethesda (1978-1980).

In 1980, he became Professor and Director of the Institut de biologie animale of the University of Lausanne and was Research Vice-rector for the University of Lausanne from 1999 to 2003. He founded the Centre Intégratif de Génomique, which he directed from 2002 to 2005.

Walter Wahli has been a member of the Swiss National Science Foundation's research council since 1987 and presided over the Biology and Medicine Division for two years.

His research mainly focuses on the genetic control of energy metabolism.

He became member of the SSIC in 2008.

Walter Wahli was born in 1946 in Moutier (Switzerland). He is married and the father of three children.


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Monsieur Prof. Dr. Walter Wahli
Centre Intégratif de Génomique
Université de Lausanne
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