Max Birnstiel#
Sadly, this member passed away. | |
Membership Number: | 21 |
Membership type: | ORDINARY |
Section: | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
Elected: | 1988 |
Main Country of Residence: | SWITZERLAND |
Max Birnstiel passed away November 15, 2014.
Positions Held
- 1998-2002 Vice-Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Intercell AG, Vienna
- 1998- Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board of Intercell AG, Vienna
- 1986-96 Director, the Boehringer Institute of Molecular Pathology, Vienna, Austria
- 1983-90 Chairman of EMBO Council and Editor-in-Chief of EMBO Journal
- 1976-83 Research Council, Swiss National Science Foundation, Bern
- 1976-78 Commission Scientifique, Institut Suisse de Recherches Experimentales sur le Cancer (ISREC)
- 1975-78 Fund comittee of EMBO
- 1975-78 President of Section VI of the Naturforschenden Gesellschaft
- 1975-78 President of the Union of Swiss Society of Experimental Biology (USGEB)
- 1975-76 Advisory Committee of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL)
- 1973-77 Executive Committee of the European Cell Biology Organization (ECBO)
- 1972-86 Professor and Chairman of the Institute of Molecular Biology II, University of Zurich, Switzerland
- 1968-71 Commissione Scientifico, Laboratorio di Embriologia Moleculare, Napoli, Italia
- 1963-72 Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, Reader, Professor (personal chair) at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland
- 1960-63 Postdoc at Caltech, Pasadena, USA, with Prof. James Bonner
- 1952-59 Diploma in Physical Chemistry and Doctorate (Dr. sc. nat) in Botany at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich
Fields of Scholarship
- Biochemistry
Honours and Awards
- 1975-78 President of the Union of Swiss Society of Experimental Biology (USGEB)
- 1975-78 President of Section VI of the Naturforschenden Gesellschaft
- 1977 Dr. rer. nat. h.c., University of Fribourg, Switzerland
- 1978 Dr. phil. h.c., University of Lund, Sweden
- 1979 Otto Nägeli Prize, Switzerland
- 1983 Foreign Associate of the US Academy of Sciences, Washington
- 1984 Member of the Associazione di Biologia Cellulare e del Differentiamento, Milano, Italia
- 1985 Corresponding Member of the Brasilian Academy of Sciences
- 1986 Prof. h.c. phil., University of Zurich
- 1987 Prof. h.c. (Molecular Biology), Science Faculty, Universitity of Vienna, Austria
- 1987 Prof. h.c. (Molecular Biology), Medical Faculty, University of Vienna
- 1987 Member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, Halle, Germany
- 1988 Founding Member of the Academia Europea
- 1989 Corresponding Member of the Medical Society, Vienna
- 1989 Medal for Services to the City of Vienna
- 1989 Corresponding Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna
- 1991 Dr. rer. nat. h.c., University of Guelph, Canada
- 1992 Founding Member of the European Working Group on Human Gene Transfer and Therapy, Paris
- 1993 Real Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna
- 1993 Active Member of the New York Academy of Sciences, New York, USA
- 1994 Wilhelm Exner Medal, Vienna
- 1996 Dr. h.c., University of Edinburgh, Scotland
- 1996 Medal (Grosses Sibernes Ehrenzeichen) for Services rendered to the Republic of Austria, Vienna
- 1997 Dr. h.c., Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology, Moscow, Russia
- 2001 Corresponding Member of the Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences