Josef Jiricny#
| Membership Number: | 2029 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2000 |
| Main Country of Residence: | SWITZERLAND |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.imcr.uzh.ch/people/jiricny/jiricny.html |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2006 Full Professor, Associated member, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biology, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich
- 2003 Full Professor, Department of Biology, ETH Zurich
- 2001 Full Professor, Faculty of Sciences, University of Zurich
- 1996 Full Professor and Director, Institute of Molecular Cancer Research, Faculty of Medicine, University of Zurich
- 1990-1996 Program Co-ordinator and Senior Director of Biochemistry, Istituto di Ricerche di Biologia Molecolare "P. Angeletti", Pomezia, Italy
- 1983-1990 Group Leader, Friedrich Miescher Institute, Basel, Switzerland
- 1979-1983 Research Fellow, Imperial Cancer Research Fund Laboratories, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London
- 1976-1979 Postdoctoral Research Assistant, King's College London
Fields of Scholarship
- Base excision repair
- Cancer research
- DNA methylation
- DNA repair
- Mismatch repair
Honours and Awards
- EMBO Member (1996)
- Academia Europea Member (2000)
- Swiss Bridge Award (2003)
- Gregor Mendel Medal of the Czech Academy of Sciences(2003)
- Bonizzi-Theler Award (2003)
- San Salvatore Prize (2005)
- International Award of the Slovak Academy of Sciences (2006)
- Ernst-Theophile Jucker Prize for Cancer Research (2010)
