Boris Turk#
| Membership Number: | 3655 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2013 |
| Main Country of Residence: | SLOVENIA |
| Homepage(s): | http://www-b1.ijs.si/en/people/doctors/boris-turk |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2011-2013 Principal Investigator at Center of Excellence Nanosciences and Nanotechnologies
- 2011-2017 Principal Investigator at Center of Excellence for Integrated Approaches in Chemistry and Biology of Proteins
- 2011 Professor of Biochemistry at Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, University of Ljubljana,
- 2008 Scientific councilor at J. Stefan Institute, Ljubljana
- since 2007 Head of Department of Biochemistry and Molecular and Structural Biology at J. Stefan Institute
- 2006 – 2011 Associate Professor at Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, University of Ljubljana
- 2001 – 2008 Senior scientist at J. Stefan Institute, Ljubljana
- 2000 - 2006 Assistant Professor at Biotechnical Faculty, University of Ljubljana,
- 1998 Head of Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology (now Biochem. & Mol. & Struct. Biol. ) at J. Stefan Institute
- 1997 - 2001 Research associate at J. Stefan Institute, Ljubljana
- 1994, Jan -1996 June Post doctoral Fellow at Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala (I. Björk); Post doctoral FEBS Fellowship (1994-1995), Wenner-Gren Fellowship (1996)
Fields of Scholarship
- Proteolysis
- Cysteine cathepsins
- Chemical biology
- Cell death
- Autophagy
- Cancer
- Protease signaling
- Lysosomes
Honours and Awards
- 2011 - 2013 President of International Proteolysis Society and Councilor
- 2011 Zois award for outstanding achievements in science in the field of signal transduction by proteases (Republic of Slovenia)
- 2007 EMBO member
- 2006 Human Frontier Science Program grant award for the project “Intracellular protease signaling induced by homopolymeric amino acid (HPAA) tracts” (together with S. Ishiura, G. Salvesen and M. Bogyo)
- 2001 Zois amendment for important scientific achievements in the field of biochemistry of lysosomal proteases (Republic of Slovenia)
- 2000 Short-term EMBO Fellowship (3 months)
- 1997 Boehringer Ingelheim ProNatura Young Investigator Award.
- 1993 Long-term EMBO (European Molecular Biology Organization) Fellowship- awarded, but declined.
- 1994 - 1996 Long-term FEBS (Federation of European Biochemical Societies) Fellowship.
