At A Glance:

Name: Ruedi Aebersold

Age: 49

Position: Co-founder, Institute for Systems Biology, Seattle, Wash., since 2000.

Plans to move to Zurich, Switzerland in November to become a professor of systems biology at the Federal Technical University in Switzerland.

Background: Professor and associate professor of molecular biotechnology, University of Washington, Seattle, 1993 - 2000.

Assistant professor of biochemistry, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, 1988-1993.