Fritz Melchers#
| Membership Number: | 449 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CELL & DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 1989 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2003 Senior Research Group Leader, Max Planck- Institute for Infection Biology, Berlin
- 1980 - 2001 Director, Basel Institute for Immunology, Basel, Switzerland
- 1970 - 1980 Permanent Member, Basel Institute for Immunology, Basel, Switzerland
- 1970 - 1971 Visiting Scientist, Department of Genetics, Stanford University Medical School, Stanford, CA
- 1970 Visiting Scientist, Weizmann Institute, Rehovot, Israel
- l970 Senior Research Assistant, Max-Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin, Germany
- l968 - 1969 Postdoctoral Fellow, Max-Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin, Germany
- l965 - 1967 Research Associate, Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, CA, USA (Fulbright Travel Scholar)
Fields of Scholarship
- Development of cells of the innate and adaptive from stem cells and early progenitors
- Development of B-lymphocytes in greater details
Honours and Awards
- Awards:
- 1978 Honorarprofessor, Fakultät für Biologie, Universität Heidelberg, Germany
- 1988 Commendatore dell Ordine di Sant' Agata, San Marino
- 1990 M.D.h.c., University of Turku, Finland
- 1994 Ph.D.h.c., Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, USA
- 1995 Bundesverdienstkreuz 1. Klasse der Bundesrepublik Deutschland
- 1996 Prausnitz-Medaille, Collegium Internationale Allergologiaun (CIA), Vienna
- 1996 Robert-Koch Prize, Bonn, Germany
- 2000 San Marino Prize 2000
- 2001 Honorarprofessor, Fakultät für Medizin, Universität Innsbruck
- 2002 Emil von Behring Preis, Marburg, Germany
- 2002 External Scientific Member (Auswärtiges Wissenschaftliches Mitglied), Max Planck-Institute for Infection Biology, Berlin, Germany
- 2002 Gaikokujin Chomei Kenkyu-shu(Eminent Scientist) Award of the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) at the University of Tokyo School of Medicine
- 2003 M.D.h.c., University of Erlangen- Nürnberg, Germany
- 2006 Ph.D.h.c. University of Leipzig, Germany
- 2006 M.D.h.c. University of Würzburg, Germany
- 2007 Johannes Gutenberg-Foundation Professorship, University of Mainz
- Memberships in Academies:
- Academia Europea
- Leopoldina
- Norwegian Academy of Science
- Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences
- American Academy for Arts and Science
- Honorary memberships in immunological societies:
- 1973 India
- 1981 USA
- 1984 Scandinavia
- 1987 Hungary
- 1999 Switzerland
- 2001 Germany
- 2002 Austria
- 2003 Japan
