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Charles Weissmann
Weissmann in 1982
Born
(1931-10-14) 14 October 1931 (age 92)
Alma mater
University of Zurich
Charles Weissmann (born 14 October 1931) is a Hungarian-Swiss molecular biologist. Weissmann is particularly known for the first cloning and expression of interferon and his contributions to the unraveling of the molecular genetics of neurogenerative prion diseases such as scrapie, Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease and "mad cow disease".
Weissmann went to University of Zurich and obtained his MD in 1956 and Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry in 1961. In 1978, Weissmann co-founded the biotech company Biogen in Geneva. Biogen is considered one of the pioneers of the biotechnology industries. Weissmann was director of the Institute for Molecular Biology in Zurich, President of the Roche Research Foundation and co-founder and Member of the Scientific Council of Biogen. He was Chairman of the Department of Infectology, Scripps Florida until 2011.
Weissmann won several awards, including the Otto Warburg Medal (1980) and the Scheele Award (1982). A member of the American Society of Biological Chemistry and the Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina he is also a Foreign Associate of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, the Royal Society (UK) and the Pour le Mérite (Germany). On 16 May 2011 Weissmann became Doctor of Science Honoris Causa at New York University.
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1998 Heiner Ryssel, 1998 Klaus Pinkau, 1997 Hans A. Leopold, 1997 CharlesWeissmann, 1997 Ingeborg Hochmair-Desoyer, 1996 Herbert Mang, 1996 Heinrich...
Otto Westphal [de] (Switzerland) 1994 Paul Klein [de] (Germany) 1995 CharlesWeissmann (Switzerland) 1996 Sir Gustav Nossal (Australia) 1997 Satoshi Ōmura...
Peter Richardson and Karl Julius Ullrich [de] 1988: Helmut Sies and CharlesWeissmann 1989: Thomas F. Budinger [de] and Jon van Rood 1990: Gerhard Giebisch...
Mühlethaler and Hans J. Moor 1968: Michel Dolivo 1969: Walter Heitler 1970: CharlesWeissmann 1971: Manfred Bleuler 1972: Albert Eschenmoser 1973: Lucien Girardier...
Speiser [Wikidata] 1980 Harri R. Nevanlinna [fi] 1981 George Aghajanian 1982 CharlesWeissmann 1983 James W. Black 1984 Malcolm Rowland 1985 Stanley S. Davis 1986...
Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, David Goeddel, Tularik, Inc., and CharlesWeissmann, Imperial College School of Medicine, London For purification and...
2000 James Watson 1999 Eric F. Wieschaus 1998 David Hopwood 1998 CharlesWeissmann 1997 Elliot Meyerowitz 1994 Seymour Benzer 1992 Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard...
for The New York Times Patrick Desbois, President, Yahad-In Unum CharlesWeissmann, Professor and Chairman, Department of Infectology, The Scripps Research...
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1977 Francis Crick 1976 No award 1975 Heinz-Gunter Wittmann 1974 CharlesWeissmann 1973 Arthur B. Pardee 1972 Ephraim Katchalski 1971 David Chilton Phillips...
UCL Institute of Neurology in 2002 to work with John Collinge and CharlesWeissmann on prion cell biology. She was promoted to UCL Clinical Senior Lecturer...
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1988 Thomas R. Cech 1985 Bela Julesz and Werner E. Reichardt 1982 CharlesWeissmann 1979 Aaron Klug 1976 Laurens L. M. van Deenen 1973 Christian de Duve...
received his doctorate in molecular biology under the supervision of CharlesWeissmann. The same year he started working at the Cancer Institute, Japanese...
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