Robin Weiss#
| Membership Number: | 1376 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CELL & DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 1993 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | https://iris.ucl.ac.uk/iris/browse/profile?upi=RAWEI91 |
Present and Previous Positions
- Emeritus Professor of Viral Oncology in the Division of Infection & Immunity at University College London (UCL)
- 1990 - 1999 Director of Research at The Institute of Cancer Research, London
- 1980 - 1989 Director at The Institute of Cancer Research, London
Fields of Scholarship
- Global health
- Infection, immunology & inflammation
- Personalised medicine
- Molecular biology
- Retroviruses, including the identification of CD4 as a co-receptor for HIV
- Study of HIV/AIDS
Honours and Awards
- 1977 Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization
- 1993 Member of the Academia Europaea
- 1997 Fellow of the Royal Society
- 1999 Honorary Fellowship of the Royal College of Physicians
- 2001 M. W. Beijerinck Prize for Virology
- 2006-2009 President of the Society for General Microbiology
- 2007 Ernst Chain Prize
- 2010 Gregor Mendal Medal Award
- 2015 Marjory Stephenson Prize
