Pascal Kaeser is a Professor in the Department of Neurobiology at Harvard Medical School. His current work focuses on mechanisms and roles of neurotransmission in the vertebrate brain, with research projects on both classical synaptic transmission and on neuromodulatory signaling. Before starting his own laboratory at Harvard in 2011, Pascal earned his MD degree at the University of Zürich, Switzerland, where he worked in the laboratory of Adriano Aguzzi, and he trained as a postdoctoral researcher with Thomas Südhof at UTSoutwestern Medical Center and at Stanford University.