Personal Information Born October 14, 1931 Swiss Citizen - Married, 3 children

Education

• Zürich University , 1950-1961
• Degrees of M.D. (1956) and Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry (1961)

Positions

• Assistant to Professor P. Karrer, Zürich University, 1960-1961
• Postdoctoral Fellow, New York University School of Medicine, Department of Biochemistry, 1961-1963
• Instructor in Biochemistry, New York University School of Medicine, Department of Biochemistry, 1963-1964
• Assistant Professor in Biochemistry, New York University School of Medicine, Department of Biochemistry, 1964-1965
• Associate Professor in Biochemistry, New York University School

University School of Medicine, Department of Biochemistry, 1965-1967

• Professor extraordinarius in Molecular Biology, 1967-1970
• Professor ordinarius in Molecular Biology, 1970-1999
• Director of the Institute of Molecular Biology, University of Zürich, 1967-1999
• Professor emeritus, University of Zürich, since 1999
• Senior Research Scientist and Visiting Professor, MRC Prion Unit, St.Mary's Hospital, since 1999

Awards and Honours (selected)

• Ruzicka Prize in Chemistry, Switzerland (1966)
• Marcel Benoist Prize, Bern (1970)
• Member of the Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina (1980)
• Dr. H.P. Heineken Prize, Amsterdam (1982)
• Foreign Member

of the Royal Society (1983)

• Jung-Preis für Medizin, Hamburg (1988)
• Foreign Associate of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences (1989)
• Robert-Koch Medal (1995)
• Charles-Léopold Mayer Prize of the French Academy of Science (1996)
• Klaus-Joachim-Zülch-Preis, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft (1997)
• Ausländisches Mitglied des Orden pour le mérite für Wissenschaften und Künste, Bonn (1998)

Honorary Degrees (Dr.h.c.)

• University of Verona (1992)
• University of Gent (1994)
• ETH Zürich (1998)
• University of Zürich (2000)
• University of St.Andrews (2000)
• Ecole Federal Polytechnique, Lausanne (2001)

Current address:

Lab: MRC Prion Unit, Department of Neurogenetics Imperial College School of Medicine at St.Mary's Norfolk Place