!!!Max Birnstiel \\ %%(float:left;margin-left:20px;margin-right:30px;) [{Image src='Birnstiel_Max.jpg' alt='Max Birnstiel' height='200'}] %% [{AcadMemberDataPlugin}] \\ \\ \\ Max Birnstiel passed away November 15, 2014. \\ \\ __Positions Held__ *1998-2002 Vice-Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Intercell AG, Vienna *1998- Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board of Intercell AG, Vienna *1986-96 Director, the Boehringer Institute of Molecular Pathology, Vienna, Austria *1983-90 Chairman of EMBO Council and Editor-in-Chief of EMBO Journal *1976-83 Research Council, Swiss National Science Foundation, Bern *1976-78 Commission Scientifique, Institut Suisse de Recherches Experimentales sur le Cancer (ISREC) *1975-78 Fund comittee of EMBO *1975-78 President of Section VI of the Naturforschenden Gesellschaft *1975-78 President of the Union of Swiss Society of Experimental Biology (USGEB) *1975-76 Advisory Committee of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) *1973-77 Executive Committee of the European Cell Biology Organization (ECBO) *1972-86 Professor and Chairman of the Institute of Molecular Biology II, University of Zurich, Switzerland *1968-71 Commissione Scientifico, Laboratorio di Embriologia Moleculare, Napoli, Italia *1963-72 Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, Reader, Professor (personal chair) at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland *1960-63 Postdoc at Caltech, Pasadena, USA, with Prof. James Bonner *1952-59 Diploma in Physical Chemistry and Doctorate (Dr. sc. nat) in Botany at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich \\ __Fields of Scholarship__ [{AcadMemberFOScholarshipPlugin}] \\ __Honours and Awards__ *1975-78 President of the Union of Swiss Society of Experimental Biology (USGEB) *1975-78 President of Section VI of the Naturforschenden Gesellschaft *1977 Dr. rer. nat. h.c., University of Fribourg, Switzerland *1978 Dr. phil. h.c., University of Lund, Sweden *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 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 *2001 Corresponding Member of the Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences \\ \\ %%columns-900 %%coolborders-140-70 [{Image src='User/paper_content_pencil_48.png' width='48px' class='image_left'}] [Curriculum Vitae |User/Birnstiel_Max/CV] %% ---- %%coolborders-140-70 [{Image src='User/book_48.png' class='image_left'}] [Publication list|User/Birnstiel_Max/Publications] %% ---- %%coolborders-140-70 [{Image src='User/camera_noflash_48.png' width='48px' class='image_left'}] [Highlights of my work and anecdotes|User/Birnstiel_Max/Highlight] %% ---- %%coolborders-140-70 [{Image src='User/database_48.png' class='image_left'}] [Other information|User/Birnstiel_Max/OtherInformation] %% %% [{ALLOW view All}] [{ALLOW edit mbirnstiel}] [{ALLOW upload mbirnstiel}] [{ALLOW comment All}]