Personal Information
Born October 14, 1931
Swiss Citizen - Married, 3 children
Education
- Zürich University , 1950-1961
- Degrees of M.D. (1956) and Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry (1961)
Positions
- Assistant to Professor P. Karrer, Zürich University, 1960-1961
- Postdoctoral Fellow, New York University School of Medicine, Department of Biochemistry, 1961-1963
- Instructor in Biochemistry, New York University School of Medicine, Department of Biochemistry, 1963-1964
- Assistant Professor in Biochemistry, New York University School of Medicine, Department of Biochemistry, 1964-1965
- Associate Professor in Biochemistry, New York University School
University School of Medicine, Department of Biochemistry, 1965-1967
- Professor extraordinarius in Molecular Biology, 1967-1970
- Professor ordinarius in Molecular Biology, 1970-1999
- Director of the Institute of Molecular Biology, University of Zürich, 1967-1999
- Professor emeritus, University of Zürich, since 1999
- Senior Research Scientist and Visiting Professor, MRC Prion Unit, St.Mary's Hospital, since 1999
Awards and Honours (selected)
- Ruzicka Prize in Chemistry, Switzerland (1966)
- Marcel Benoist Prize, Bern (1970)
- Member of the Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina (1980)
- Dr. H.P. Heineken Prize, Amsterdam (1982)
- Foreign Member
of the Royal Society (1983)
- Jung-Preis für Medizin, Hamburg (1988)
- Foreign Associate of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences (1989)
- Robert-Koch Medal (1995)
- Charles-Léopold Mayer Prize of the French Academy of Science (1996)
- Klaus-Joachim-Zülch-Preis, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft (1997)
- Ausländisches Mitglied des Orden pour le mérite für Wissenschaften und Künste, Bonn (1998)
Honorary Degrees (Dr.h.c.)
- University of Verona (1992)
- University of Gent (1994)
- ETH Zürich (1998)
- University of Zürich (2000)
- University of St.Andrews (2000)
- Ecole Federal Polytechnique, Lausanne (2001)
Current address:
Lab:
MRC Prion Unit, Department of Neurogenetics
Imperial College School of Medicine at St.Mary's
Norfolk Place
