| Hermann Steller | |
| Alt: | Hermann Steller at lecturn, speaking |
| Caption: | Dr. Steller speaking at The Rockefeller University |
| Birth Date: | 25 April 1957 |
| Birth Place: | Bad Nauheim, Germany |
| Fields: | Developmental Biology, Apoptosis |
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| Website: | https://www.rockefeller.edu/our-scientists/heads-of-laboratories/908-hermann-steller/ |
Hermann Steller (born 25 April 1957) is the head of the Strang Laboratory of Apoptosis and Cancer Biology at The Rockefeller University, and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Steller pioneered the use of Drosophila as a genetic model for cell death research. He described and characterized the first cell death genes in the fly, Reaper and Hid, and the first Drosophila caspase.
Steller earned his Diplom in microbiology from Goethe University Frankfurt, and his Ph.D. from the European Molecular Biology Laboratory and the University of Heidelberg in 1984.
After post graduate work at The University of California, Berkeley, Steller became a professor of neurobiology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology before becoming head of lab at The Rockefeller University. Steller was also a Howard Hughes Medical Investigator from 1990-2016[1]
Steller's laboratory studies the regulation of apoptosis, how defects in this process contribute to diseases, and how insights into apoptotic pathways can be exploited for the design of new therapies.