Walter Schaffner#
| Membership Number: | 1004 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 1991 |
| Main Country of Residence: | SWITZERLAND |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.imls.uzh.ch/research/schaffner.html#11 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 1999-2007 Director, Institute of Molecular Biology (I & II) (1999 - 2007)
- 1987 Full Professor and Director, Institute of Molecular Biology II
- 1983 Associate Professor at Institute of Molecular Biology II
- 1979 Assistant Professor at Institute of Molecular Biology II
- 1977-1978 Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, New York
- 1976 Group leader with Prof. Max L. Birnstiel, Institute of Molecular Biology II, University of Zürich Postdoctoral stay with Frederick Sanger, MRC Cambridge
- 1976 Ph.D. thesis in Molecular Biology with Charles Weissmann, Institute of Molecular Biology I, University of Zürich
Fields of Scholarship
- Mechanisms and Factors of Transcription
Honours and Awards
- Federation of European Biochemical Societies (FEBS) Prize for Young Scientist (1984)
- Election to Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization EMBO (1984)
- Election to FEBS Lecturer (1985)
- Cloëtta Prize (1986)
- Dr.h.c. of the Medical Faculty of the University of Uppsala, Sweden (1987)
- Louis Jeantet Prize of Medicine (1989)
- Election to Academia Europaea (1990)
- Carus Medal of the German Society of Natural Sciences Leopoldina (1999) and Carus Prize of the City of Schweinfurt (2000)
- Elected Member of the Research Council of the Swiss National Science Foundation (2002)
