Walter Keller#
| Sadly, this member passed away. | |
| Membership Number: | 492 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 1989 |
| Main Country of Residence: | SWITZERLAND |
Walter Keller passed away March 30, 2023.
Positions Held
- 1987 - 2008 Professor, Department of Cell Biology, Biozentrum, University of Basel
- 1980 - 1987 Head, Division of Molecular Biology II, Institute of Cell and Tumor Biology, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg
- 1976 - 1980 Associate Professor, Department of Microbiology, University of Heidelberg
- 1970 - 1976 Senior Staff Investigator, Tumor Virus Group, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, New York
- 1969 - 1970 Visiting Fellow, Laboratory of Biology of Viruses, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
- 1968 Postdoctoral fellow, Department of Biophysics, Johns Hopkins University Medical School, Baltimore, Maryland
- 1966 - 1968 Research Assistant, Department of Human Genetics, University of Freiburg (Breisgau)
- 1964-1966 Research Assistant, Department of Pathology, University of Freiburg (Breisgau)
Fields of Scholarship
- Human biochemical genetics
- Molecular biology of tumor viruses
- Purification and characterization of mammalian pre-mRNA splicing factors
- Cell biology
Honours and Awards
- 1978 Elected Member, European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
- 1989 Elected Member, Academia Europaea
- 1998 Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine
- 2007 Lifetime Achievement Award for Science from the RNA Society
