Curriculum Vitae of
Christopher Anderegg, M.D., Ph.D.

Date of birth: August 20th, 1960
Place of birth: Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
Nationalities: U.S.A. and Switzerland
 
Education and Academic Degrees:

1982 - 1987:
Yale University School of Medicine (New Haven, Connecticut, U.S.A.): M.D.

1984 - 1987:
Yale University Graduate School (New Haven, Connecticut, U.S.A.): Ph.D. in Biology
(M.D. and Ph.D. received as a student in the federally funded Medical Scientist Training Program of the National Institute of General Medical Sciences, U.S.A.)

1978 - 1982:
Wesleyan College (Middletown, Connecticut, U.S.A.): B.A.
(Double Major: Biology and French)
 
Research and Work Experience:

1990 - present:
President and director of the Association for the Abolition of Animal Experiments in Zurich,
Switzerland, an organization dedicated to exposing the dangers of animal experimentation
to human health, and to promoting the use of safe, scientific research methods including
epidemiological studies on population groups, clinical investigations of patients, biopsy
and autopsy investigations, and experiments with human cell, tissue and organ cultures.

1988:
Postdoctoral fellowship in mouse embryology under Prof. Dr. Gerald Stranzinger at the
Institute of Animal Sciences of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich,
Switzerland, and under Prof. Dr. Walter Rossbach at the Institute for Biomedical Research
of F. Hoffmann-La Roche in Fullinsdorf, Switzerland.

1984 - 1987:
Ph.D. dissertation research in mouse embryology under Prof. Clement L. Markert,
Department of Biology, Yale University.

1979 - 1982:
Honors thesis research in sea urchin embryology under Assist. Prof. Robert S. Turner, Jr.,
Department of Biology, Wesleyan College.

 
Prizes and Honors:

Rentschler Prize, 2006 (Zurich, Switzerland), for "the enduring fight for the abolition of
animal experiments".

Erlenmeyer Prize, 1990 (Basle, Switzerland), for "the courageous and selfless exposure
of abuses in animal experimentation".

Departmental Honors in Biology, 1982, Wesleyan University.

Hawk Prize, 1982, Wesleyan University, for "the most effective work in biochemistry by a student".

Schlinger Prize, 1982, Wesleyan University, for "excellence of character, community spirit,
and academic achievement in a premedical student".

Weller Prize, 1981, Wesleyan University, for "the student with the highest academic average
for the sophomore year".

Phi Beta Kappa, 1981, Wesleyan University.
 
Publications:

Anderegg, C., Archibald, K., Bailey, J., Cohen, M. J., Kaufman, S. R., Pippin, J. J.:
A Critical Look at Animal Experimentation. Medical Research Modernization Committee,
Cleveland, Ohio, 2006.

Anderegg, C. and Markert, C. L.: Successful Rescue of Microsurgically Produced
Homozygous Uniparental Mouse Embryos via Production of Aggregation Chimeras.
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 83: 6509-6513, 1986.
 
Films:

Appeared in the documentary Lethal Medicine, a scientific critique of animal
experimentation (© 1997, 56 min., NTSC and PAL video, produced and directed by
Javier Burgos and Hoorik Davoudian in Glendale, California, U.S.A.).

Wrote, directed and appeared in the teaching film "Embryo Transfer in the Mouse"
(© 1988, 22 min., NTSC and PAL video, produced with the TV-Studio of F. Hoffmann-
La Roche in Basle, Switzerland).

Founded the Yale Medical School Film Society in 1983 and directed it from 1983 -1987
(New Haven, Connecticut, U.S.A.).