Robin Weiss#


Robin Weiss
Membership Number:1376
Membership type:ORDINARY
Section:CELL & DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY
Elected:1993
Main Country of Residence:UNITED KINGDOM
Homepage(s):https://iris.ucl.ac.uk/iris/browse/profile?upi=RAWEI91




Present and Previous Positions
  • Emeritus Professor of Viral Oncology in the Division of Infection & Immunity at University College London (UCL)
  • 1990 - 1999 Director of Research at The Institute of Cancer Research, London
  • 1980 - 1989 Director at The Institute of Cancer Research, London

Fields of Scholarship
  • Global health
  • Infection, immunology & inflammation
  • Personalised medicine
  • Molecular biology
  • Retroviruses, including the identification of CD4 as a co-receptor for HIV
  • Study of HIV/AIDS

Honours and Awards
  • 1977 Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization
  • 1993 Member of the Academia Europaea
  • 1997 Fellow of the Royal Society
  • 1999 Honorary Fellowship of the Royal College of Physicians
  • 2001 M. W. Beijerinck Prize for Virology
  • 2006-2009 President of the Society for General Microbiology
  • 2007 Ernst Chain Prize
  • 2010 Gregor Mendal Medal Award
  • 2015 Marjory Stephenson Prize


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