Walter Fiers#
| Sadly, this member passed away. | |
| Membership Number: | 165 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 1989 |
| Main Country of Residence: | BELGIUM |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.irc.ugent.be/index.php?id=walterfiersdescr |
Walter Fiers passed away July 28, 2019.
Positions Held
- 1997 Professor Emeritus
- 1997 Free-lance Research Collaborator at the University of Ghent, group Molecular Virology, DMBR, Gent, Belgium
- 1979 - 1989 Member of the “Scientific Board” of Biogen Inc.
- 1969 - 1996 Professor of Molecular Biology at the Faculty of Sciences, University of Ghent, Belgium
- 1967 - 1997 Director-Head of the Laboratory of Molecular Biology (later renamed as “Department”), University of Ghent, Belgium
- 1963 - 1967 Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, University of Ghent, Belgium
- 1962 Research Associate, Institute for Enzyme Research, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA
- 1960 - 1962 Senior Research Assistant with the NFWO
- 1960 - 1961 Research Fellowship from the Rockefeller Foundation, New York, USA
- 1960 - 1961 Research Fellow in Biology, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA,
- 1957 - 1959 Research Assistant with the NFWO (National Foundation for Scientific Research)
Fields of Scholarship
- Molecular Biology
- Molecular Virology
Honours and Awards
- Awards
- 1961 Triannual Award "J.B. Van Helmont" of the Royal Flemish Academy of Medicine of Belgium
- 1966 Award of the Flemish Chemical Society
- 1971 Medal of the Société de Chimie Biologique de France
- 1975 Award "Doctor A. De Leeuw - Damry - Bourlart" of the National Foundation for Scientific Research of Belgium
- 1976 Francqui Award (Francqui Foundation, Belgium)
- 1978 Doctor honoris causa, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium
- 1980 Jenkinson Memorial Lecture, University of Oxford, UK
- 1986 Dr. Beijerinck Gold Medal for Virology, Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences, The Netherlands
- Rik & Nel Wouters Prize for Cancer Research, Belgium
- 1989 Artois - Baillet Latour Prize, Belgium
- Carlos J. Finlay Prize (UNESCO Prize for Microbiology, including Immunology, Molecular Biology and Genetics)
- 1990 Personal title of "Baron" and hereditary nobility conferred by H.M. the King of Belgium
- 1991 Robert Koch Prize (Robert Koch-Stiftung, Bonn, Germany)
- 2003 Co-laureate of the 2003 A. Sabin Prize for Belgium
- Memberships
- 1966 EMBO (European Molecular Biology Organisation)
- 1981 the FlemishRoyal Academy of Belgium
- 1989 Academia Europaea
- 1989 HUGO (The Human Genome Organisation)
- 1991 Honorary Member of the Royal Society of Flemish Engineers
- 1992 Honorary Member of the Royal Academy of Medicine
- 1999 “Foreign Honorary Member” of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 2000 Honorary Life Membership Award of the International Cytokine Society.
