Fred Sigworth studied applied physics at Caltech and was a graduate student at Yale, working in the neuroscience laboratory of Charles F. Stevens. He received the PhD in physiology from Yale in 1979 and was a postdoc in the laboratory of Erwin Neher in Göttingen, Germany where he was a co-developer of patch-clamp techniques for single-channel electrophysiology. He returned to Yale as a faculty member at Yale in 1984. His current research is in the structural biology of ion-channel proteins, making use of novel cryo-EM methods. "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!"
Award | Awarding Organization | Date |
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Member | National Academy of Sciences | 2016 |
Bohmfalk Teaching Prize | Yale School of Medicine | 2002 |
K. C. Cole Award | Biophysical Society | 1997 |
Yale Science and Engineering Award | Yale University | 1996 |
Jacob Javits Neuroscience Investigator Award | NIH | 1992 |
Fellow | Alexander von Humboldt Foundation | 1979 |