Principal Investigator
Ana Pombo
Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Genome Biology
Ana Pombo studies 3D genome folding and gene expression in development and disease. After her DPhil at University of Oxford, UK, Ana received a Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowship and started her independent lab at the MRC London Institute for Medical Sciences. In 2013, she moved to the Berlin Institute of Medical Systems Biology (BIMSB) of the Max Delbrück Center in Berlin, Germany, where she serves as Deputy Director. Ana received the Robert Feulgen Prize in 2007, and was elected member of EMBO in 2018 and the European Academy of Sciences in 2022. She has pioneered Genome Architecture Mapping (GAM) to map 3D genome structure.
Since 2024, the group has been operating at two sites: the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD, USA, and the Max Delbrück Center in Berlin, Germany.
- Appointments
- Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Genome Biology
- Department of Biology, Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, Johns Hopkins University
- Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
- Guest Group Leader, Berlin Institute for Medical Systems Biology, Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine
- Phone
- +49 30 9406-1760 (Berlin)
- Education
- DPhil in Physiological Sciences, Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford (1998)
- BSc and MSc in Biochemistry, University of Lisbon (1988–1992)
- Previously
- Professor (W3) of Biology, Humboldt University of Berlin (2013–2025)
- Senior Group Leader, Max Delbrück Center, Berlin (2013–)
- Professor of Cell Biology, Institute of Clinical Sciences, Imperial College London (2012–2015)
- Group Leader, MRC London Institute of Medical Sciences (2000–2013)
- Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Fellow, University of Oxford (1998–2002)
- Selected honors
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize (2025)
- Elected member, European Academy of Sciences (2022)
- Elected member, EMBO (2018)
- Robert Feulgen Prize, Society for Histochemistry (2007)
- Hayward Junior Research Fellowship, Oriel College, Oxford (1997–2000)