Elly Tanaka

Elly Margaret Tanaka
Elly Margaret Tanaka
Born	Elly Margaret Tanaka
Alma mater	Harvard University (BSc); University of California, San Francisco (PhD);
Awards	Ernst Schering Prize (2017); EMBO Member (2017); Erwin Schrödinger Prize (2018); FEBS / EMBO Women in Science Award (2020);
	Scientific career
Fields	molecular biology, regeneration
Institutions	University College London; Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics; Center for Regenerative Therapies Dresden (CRTD); Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP); Institute of Molecular Biotechnology (IMBA);
Thesis	(1993)
Doctoral advisor	Marc W. Kirschner
Website	www.oeaw.ac.at/imba/groups/elly-tanaka

Elly Margaret Tanaka (born 22 August 1965) is a biochemist and Scientific Director at the Institute of Molecular Biotechnology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (IMBA) in Vienna, Austria. Tanaka studies the molecular cell biology of limb and spinal cord regeneration as well as the evolution of regeneration.