!!!Fritz Melchers
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Fritz Melchers passed away February 24, 2025.
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__Positions Held__
*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) 
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__Fields of Scholarship__
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__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
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