Frederick J. Sigworth PhD

Professor of Cellular and Molecular Physiology and of Biomedical Engineering

Biographical Info

Fred Sigworth studied applied physics at Caltech and was a graduate student at Yale, working in the laboratory of Charles F. Stevens. He received the PhD in physiology from Yale in 1979. He was a postdoc in the laboratory of Erwin Neher in Göttingen. He has been a faculty member at Yale since 1984. " How do I see the scientific enterprise? An old book puts it this way: one generation commends God's works to another. It is a great privilege to unravel the workings of ion channels, and to pass on the excitement about these molecular machines to students, colleagues and anyone else who will listen!"

Education & Training

Ph.D.

Yale University (1979)

Post-Doctoral Fellow

Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen, Germany.

Research Associate

Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen, Germany.

Honors & Recognition

• Alexander von Humboldt Fellow
  (1979)
• Jacob Javits Neuroscience Investigator Award
  (1992)
• Yale Science and Engineering Award
  Yale University (1996)
• K. C. Cole Award
  Biophysical Society (1997)
• Bohmfalk Teaching Prize
  Yale School of Medicine (2002)