Pico Caroni BSc, PhD

Pico Caroni received his PhD in Biochemistry from ETH Zurich and was a postdoctoral fellow with Reginald Kelly at UCSF and Martin Schwab at the University of Zurich, where they discovered Nogo-A as a myelin-derived inhibitor of neurite outgrowth. Caroni joined the Friedrich Miescher Institute in Basel in 1989 and is now a senior group leader. His main interest is in the mechanisms controlling the formation, maintenance, and turnover of synaptic connections in the hippocampus. In 2012, he received the Théodore Ott Prize for his lifetime achievements in neurobiological research.