!!!Walter Fiers
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Walter Fiers passed away July 28, 2019.
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__Positions Held__
*1997 Professor Emeritus
*1997 Free-lance Research Collaborator at the University of Ghent, group Molecular Virology, DMBR, Gent, Belgium
*1979 - 1989 Member of the “Scientific Board” of Biogen Inc.
*1969 - 1996 Professor of Molecular Biology at the Faculty of Sciences, University of Ghent, Belgium
*1967 - 1997 Director-Head of the Laboratory of Molecular Biology (later renamed as “Department”), University of Ghent, Belgium
*1963 - 1967 Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, University of Ghent, Belgium
*1962 Research Associate, Institute for Enzyme Research, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA
*1960 - 1962 Senior Research Assistant with the NFWO
*1960 - 1961 Research Fellowship from the Rockefeller Foundation, New York, USA
*1960 - 1961 Research Fellow in Biology, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA,
*1957 - 1959 Research Assistant with the NFWO (National Foundation for Scientific Research)
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__Fields of Scholarship__
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__Honours and Awards__
*__Awards__
**1961 Triannual Award "J.B. Van Helmont" of the Royal Flemish Academy of Medicine of Belgium
**1966 Award of the Flemish Chemical Society 
**1971 Medal of the Société de Chimie Biologique de France
**1975 Award "Doctor A. De Leeuw - Damry - Bourlart" of the National Foundation for Scientific Research of Belgium 
**1976 Francqui Award (Francqui Foundation, Belgium)
**1978 Doctor honoris causa, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium
**1980 Jenkinson Memorial Lecture, University of Oxford, UK
**1986 Dr. Beijerinck Gold Medal for Virology, Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences, The Netherlands
**Rik & Nel Wouters Prize for Cancer Research, Belgium
**1989 Artois - Baillet Latour Prize, Belgium
**Carlos J. Finlay Prize (UNESCO Prize for Microbiology, including Immunology, Molecular Biology and Genetics)
**1990 Personal title of "Baron" and hereditary nobility conferred by H.M. the King of Belgium
**1991 Robert Koch Prize (Robert Koch-Stiftung, Bonn, Germany)
**2003 Co-laureate of the 2003 A. Sabin Prize for Belgium 
*__Memberships__ 
**1966 EMBO (European Molecular Biology Organisation)
**1981 the FlemishRoyal Academy of Belgium  
**1989 Academia Europaea
**1989 HUGO (The Human Genome Organisation) 
**1991 Honorary Member of the Royal Society of Flemish Engineers 
**1992 Honorary Member of the Royal Academy of Medicine
**1999 “Foreign Honorary Member” of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 
**2000 Honorary Life Membership Award of the International Cytokine Society.
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[Curriculum Vitae |User/Fiers_Walter/CV]
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[Publication list|User/Fiers_Walter/Publications]
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[Highlights of my work and anecdotes|User/Fiers_Walter/Highlight]
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