Charles Weissmann#
| Membership Number: | 241 |
| Membership type: | FOREIGN |
| Section: | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 1989 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED STATES |
Present and Previous Positions
- Professor Emeritus, Department of Immunology and Microbial Science, Florida Atlantic University
- 2004 - 2012 Professor and Chairman, Dept. of Infectology, Scripps Florida Research Institute
- 1999 - 2005 Senior Research Scientist and Visiting Professor, MRC Prion Unit, St.Mary's Hospital
- 1999 Professor emeritus, University of Zürich
- 1967 - 1999 Director of the Institute of Molecular Biology, University of Zürich
- 1970 - 1999 Professor ordinarius in Molecular Biology
- 1967 - 1970 Professor extraordinarius in Molecular Biology
- 1965 - 1967 Associate Professor in Biochemistry, New York University School of Medicine, Department of Biochemistry
- 1964 - 1965 Assistant Professor in Biochemistry, New York University School of Medicine, Department of Biochemistry
Fields of Scholarship
- Molecular genetics of neurogenerative prion diseases
- First cloning and expression of interferon
Honours and Awards
- 1966 Ruzicka Prize in Chemistry (Switzerland)
- 1970 Marcel Benoist Prize, Bern
- 1974 Sir Hans Krebs Medaille (Budapest)
- 1979 Honorary Member of the American Society of Biological Chemistry
- 1980 Otto Warburg Prize (Innsbruck)
- 1980 Member of the Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina
- 1982 Dr. H.P. Heineken Prize, Amsterdam
- 1982 Scheele Medal (Uppsala)
- 1983 Foreign Member of the Royal Society
- 1985 Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 1987 Cancer Prize (Krebspreis) of the Schweizerische Krebsliga
- 1988 Jung-Preis Für Medizin (Hamburg)
- 1989 Foreign Associate of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences
- 1993 Gabor Medal of the Royal Society
- 1995 Robert-Koch Medal
- 1996 Datta Lectureship Award of the FEBS
- 1996 Charles-Léopold Mayer Prize of the French Academy of Science
- 1996 Royal Society Glaxo Wellcome Prize
- 1997 Honorary Member, Dept. of Biochemistry, University of Oxford
- 1997 Member of the Schweizerische Akademie der Medizinischen Wissenschaften
- 1997 August-Wilhelm-von-Hofmann-Denkmünze (Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker, Wien)
- 1997 Klaus-Joachim-Zülch-Preis (Max-Planck-Gesellschaft)
- 1997 Max Delbrück Medal (Berlin)
- 1997 Wilhelm-Exner Medaille (Wien)
- 1998 Distinguished Service Award (Miami)
- 1998 Corresponding Member of the Nordrhein-Westfälischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
- 1988 Ausländisches Mitglied des Orden pour le mérite für Wissenschaften und Künste (Bonn)
- 1998 Mendel Medal (Genetical Society, London)
- 1999 Extraordinary member of the Berlin-Brandenburgischen Akademie der Wissenschaften (Berlin)
- 1999 Samuel Rudin Distinguished Visiting Professor (Columbia University, NY)
- 1999 Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology (Washington)
- 2001 Betty and David Koetser Award (Zürich)
- 2001 Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences (London)
- 2001 Friedrich-Bauer-Prize for Medical Research (University of Münich)
- 2003 Warren Alpert Foundation Prize
- 2004 Warren Alpert Foundation Prize (Harvard Medical School)
- 2006 Fifth Annuary Dart/NYU Biotechnology Award (New York University)
