Schatz, Carla

Carla Schatz ( born Carla Jo Shatz ; born 1947 , USA ) is an American scientist. The works are mainly devoted to neurobiology. Professor at Stanford University, a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1995) ^[1] and the Medical Academy (1999) of the USA, the American Philosophical Society (1997), a foreign member of the Royal Society of London (2011) ^[2] .

Carla Schatz
Carla J. shatz
Date of Birth	1947 ( 1947 )
Place of Birth	USA
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Scientific field	neurobiology
Place of work	Stanford University
Alma mater	Harvard Medical School
Academic degree	Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
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Awards and prizes	Cavley Prize in Neuroscience (2016)

Gained fame as a researcher of vision and brain development at an early stage.

She graduated from Radcliffe College (Bachelor of Chemistry, 1969). Then, according to a scholarship, Marshall graduated from University College London (Master of Physiology, 1971). Having become the youngest fello of the at the Harvard Medical School , in 1976 she received a Ph.D. in neurobiology there, studied with Nobel laureates David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel . In the years 1976-1978. Pasco Rakic’s postdoc at the Department of Neuroscience at Harvard Medical School. In 1978, she founded her own laboratory at Stanford University , where since 1989 a professor of neurobiology. In 1992, she moved her laboratory to the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of California, Berkeley. She was a researcher at Howard Hughes Medical Institute (1994-2000). Then (since 2000) again at Harvard Medical School, where she headed the Department of Neurobiology. In 2007, she returned to Stanford as director of BioX.

In 1994-1995 President of the American Society of Neuroscience. In 1998-2001 Member of the Council of NAS of the USA.

Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1992) ^[3] and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1996).