Hans Thoenen#
| Sadly, this member passed away. | |
| Membership Number: | 407 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSIOLOGY & NEUROSCIENCE |
| Elected: | 1989 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
Hans Thoenen passed away June 23, 2012.
Positions Held
- 1966 Retirement
- 1977 - 1966 Director of the Max Planck Institute for Psychiatry (now Max Planck Institute for Neurobiology)
- 1971 - 1977 Research group leader in Neurobiology, Biocentre at the University of Basel
- 1968 - 1969 Axelrod group at NIMH
- 1961 - 1968 Research laboratories of the Swiss pharmaceutical company Hoffmann LaRoche
Fields of Scholarship
- Dopaminergic neurons
- Trans-synaptic enzyme induction
- Cloning of brain derived neurotrophic factor
- Ciliary neurotrophic factor
- Neurobiology
Honours and Awards
- 1980 Feldberg Award
- 1985 Cloëtta Prize
- 1994 Charles A. Dana Award for Pioneering Achievement in Health
- 1994 Neuronal Plasticity Prize
- 1995 Ralph W. Gerard Prize in Neuroscience of the Society for Neuroscience
- 1997 Bristol-Myers Squibb Award for Distinguished Achievement in Neuroscience Research (jointly with Eric M. Shooter)
- 2007 Ernst Jung Gold Medal
- Member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
- Foreign member of the National Academy of Sciences
- Honorary doctorates from the Universities of Würzburg and Zurich
