{"id":7314,"date":"2007-12-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-16T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/irb.usi.ch\/uncategorized\/irb-elects-new-member-of-the-board\/"},"modified":"2007-12-17T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-16T22:00:00","slug":"irb-elects-new-member-of-the-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irb.usi.ch\/it\/news\/irb-elects-new-member-of-the-board\/","title":{"rendered":"IRB elects new Member of the Board"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"news-publication\"><span>on<\/span> <span class=\"date-display-single\">December 17, 2007<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\n\tWalter Schaffner, former Director of the Insitute of Molecular Biology at the University of Zurich, has been elected to the IRB Foundation Board.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<img alt=\"Photo Walter Schaffner\" src=\"\/images\/news-walter-schaffner.jpeg\" style=\"width: 118px; height: 165px\"><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n\t\tBorn 26.10.1944 in Aarau, Switzerland<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\tDiploma in Zoology with Ernst Hadorn, University of Z\u00fcrich (1970)<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\tCertificate of Molecular Biology SKMB (1974)<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\tPh.D. thesis in Molecular Biology with Charles Weissmann, Institute f. Molecular Biology I, U. Z\u00fcrich; excellency award for thesis (1976)<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\tGroup leader with Prof. Max L. Birnstiel, Inst. f. Molecular Biology II, U. Z\u00fcrich<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\tPostdoctoral stay with Frederick Sanger, MRC Cambridge (1976)<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\tCold Spring Harbor Laboratory, New York (1977\/78)<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\tAssistant Professor at Inst. f. Molecular Biology II (1979)<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\tAssociate Professor (1983)<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\tFederation of European Biochemical Societies (FEBS) Prize for Young Scientist (1984)<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\tElection to FEBS Lecturer (1985)<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\tClo\u00ebtta Prize (1986)<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\tFull Professor and Director, Institute of Molecular Biology II (1987)<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\tDr.h.c. of the Medical Faculty of the University of Uppsala, Sweden (1987)<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\tLouis Jeantet Prize of Medicine (1989) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jeantet.ch\/ target=\">Fondation Louis-Jeantet<\/a><\/li>\n<li>\n\t\tAcademia Europaea (1990)<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\tDirector, Institute f. Molecular Biology (I &amp; II) (1999 &#8211; 2007)<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\tCarus Medal of the German Society of Natural Sciences Leopoldina (1999) and Carus prize of the city of Schweinfurt (2000)<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\tElected Member of the Research Council of the Swiss National Science Foundation (2002)<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\tMember of &#8220;Faculty of 1000&#8221; Biology (2007)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 Z\u00fcrich (1970) Certificate of Molecular Biology SKMB (1974) Ph.D. thesis in Molecular Biology with Charles [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v15.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>IRB elects new Member of the Board - IRB USI<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/irb.usi.ch\/it\/news\/irb-elects-new-member-of-the-board\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"it_IT\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"IRB elects new Member of the Board - IRB USI\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"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. 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