Dr. Blobel is a Professor of Pediatrics and holds the Frank E. Weise III Chair in Hematology. He is co-director of the Epigenetics Institute at UPenn and co-director of the Spatial and Functional Genomics program at CHOP. Dr. Blobel has been continually funded by the NIH since arriving at Penn and holds an NIH MERIT award. In 2014 he won the Stanley N. Cohen Biomedical Research Award, and in 2015 received the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Mentor Award. He was elected to the American Society of Clinical Investigation (2004) and Association of American Physicians (2008).

Dr. Blobel investigates the fundamental mechanisms involving transcription factors, chromatin regulators, and higher order chromatin. He is gearing his basic science discoveries towards genetic and epigenetic treatment modalities. In addition, Dr. Blobel is interested in mechanism of epigenetic memory.

MD, Ruprecht-Karls University, Germany, 1986

PhD, Rockefeller University (Molecular Oncology), 1991

Fellowship, Harvard Medical School (Hematology), 1997

Investigator

Frank E. Weise III Endowed Chair in Pediatric Hematology

Professor of Pediatrics

American Society of Hematology

American Society for Microbiology

American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

American Society for Clinical Investigation

Member, Association of American Physicians

Baldasare Award, 1997

Florence R.C. Murray Award, 1997

American Society of Hematology (ASH) Scholar Award, 1998

Cooley’s Anemia Foundation Junior Faculty Award, 1998

Foerderer Innovation Grant Award, 2008, 2013

Stanley N. Cohen Biomedical Research Award, 2014

The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Mentor Award, 2015

NIH MERIT Award