Max Birnstiel - Curriculum vitae#

• 1945-51 Cantonal Gymnasium, Zurich, Switzerland
• 1952-59 Diploma in Physical Chemistry and Doctorate (Dr. sc. nat) in Botany at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich
• 1960-63 Postdoc at Caltech, Pasadena, USA, with Prof. James Bonner
• 1963-72 Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, Reader, Professor (personal chair) at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland
• 1968-71 Commissione Scientifico, Laboratorio di Embriologia Moleculare, Napoli, Italia
• 1972-86 Professor and Chairman of the Institute of Molecular Biology II, University of Zurich, Switzerland
• 1973-77 Executive Committee of the European Cell Biology Organization (ECBO)
• 1975-76 Advisory Committee of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL)
• 1975-78 President of the Union of Swiss Society of Experimental Biology (USGEB)
• 1975-78 President of Section VI of the Naturforschenden Gesellschaft
• 1975-78 Fund comittee of EMBO
• 1976-78 Commission Scientifique, Institut Suisse de Recherches Experimentales sur le Cancer (ISREC)
• 1976-83 Research Council, Swiss National Science Foundation, Bern
• 1977 Dr. rer. nat. h.c., University of Fribourg, Switzerland
• 1978 Dr. phil. h.c., University of Lund, Sweden
• 1983-90 Chairman of EMBO Council and Editor-in-Chief of EMBO Journal
• 1979 Otto Nägeli Prize, Switzerland
• 1983 Foreign Associate of the US Academy of Sciences, Washington
• 1984 Member of the Associazione di Biologia Cellulare e del Differentiamento, Milano, Italia
• 1985 Corresponding Member of the Brasilian Academy of Sciences
• 1986-96 Director, the Boehringer Institute of Molecular Pathology, Vienna, Austria
• 1986 Prof. h.c. phil., University of Zurich
• 1987 Prof. h.c. (Molecular Biology), Science Faculty, Universitity of Vienna, Austria
• 1987 Prof. h.c. (Molecular Biology), Medical Faculty, University of Vienna
• 1987 Member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, Halle, Germany
• 1988 Founding Member of the Academia Europea
• 1989 Corresponding Member of the Medical Society, Vienna
• 1989 Medal for Services to the City of Vienna
• 1989 Corresponding Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna
• 1991 Dr. rer. nat. h.c., University of Guelph, Canada
• 1992 Founding Member of the European Working Group on Human Gene Transfer and Therapy, Paris
• 1993 Real Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna
• 1993 Active Member of the New York Academy of Sciences, New York, USA
• 1994 Wilhelm Exner Medal, Vienna
• 1996 Dr. h.c., University of Edinburgh, Scotland
• 1996 Medal (Grosses Sibernes Ehrenzeichen) for Services rendered to the Republic of Austria, Vienna
• 1997 Dr. h.c., Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology, Moscow, Russia
• 1998- Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board of Intercell AG, Vienna
• 1998-2002 Vice-Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Intercell AG, Vienna
• 2001 Corresponding Member of the Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences