on December 17, 2007
Walter Schaffner, former Director of the Insitute of Molecular Biology at the University of Zurich, has been elected to the IRB Foundation Board.
- Born 26.10.1944 in Aarau, Switzerland
- Diploma in Zoology with Ernst Hadorn, University of Zürich (1970)
- Certificate of Molecular Biology SKMB (1974)
- Ph.D. thesis in Molecular Biology with Charles Weissmann, Institute f. Molecular Biology I, U. Zürich; excellency award for thesis (1976)
- Group leader with Prof. Max L. Birnstiel, Inst. f. Molecular Biology II, U. Zürich
- Postdoctoral stay with Frederick Sanger, MRC Cambridge (1976)
- Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, New York (1977/78)
- Assistant Professor at Inst. f. Molecular Biology II (1979)
- Associate Professor (1983)
- Federation of European Biochemical Societies (FEBS) Prize for Young Scientist (1984)
- Election to FEBS Lecturer (1985)
- Cloëtta Prize (1986)
- Full Professor and Director, Institute of Molecular Biology II (1987)
- Dr.h.c. of the Medical Faculty of the University of Uppsala, Sweden (1987)
- Louis Jeantet Prize of Medicine (1989) Fondation Louis-Jeantet
- Academia Europaea (1990)
- Director, Institute f. Molecular Biology (I & II) (1999 – 2007)
- 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)
- Member of “Faculty of 1000” Biology (2007)
