Frederick Sigworth, PhD
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Biography
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!"
Education & Training
- Research AssociateMax Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen, Germany. (1984)
- Post-Doctoral FellowMax Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen, Germany. (1981)
- PhDYale University (1979)
Honors & Recognition
Award | Awarding Organization | Date |
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Fellow | American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) | 2023 |
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 |
Departments & Organizations
- Biochemistry, Quantitative Biology, Biophysics and Structural Biology (BQBS)
- Cellular & Molecular Physiology
- Dean's Workshops
- Graduate Program in Cellular and Molecular Physiology
- High Performance Computation
- Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program
- Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry
- Molecular Medicine, Pharmacology, and Physiology
- Neuroscience Track
- Sigworth Lab
- Yale Combined Program in the Biological and Biomedical Sciences (BBS)
- Yale Ventures