George Klein#
Stefan Zimmerman
| Sadly, this member passed away. | |
| Membership Number: | 431 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CELL & DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 1989 |
| Main Country of Residence: | SWEDEN |
George Klein passed away December 10, 2016.
Positions Held
- 1993 Research Group Leader, Microbiology and Tumor Biology Center, Karolinska Institute
- 1993 Professor emeritus of Tumour Biology at the Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology, Karolinska Institute
- 1957-1993 Professor of Tumor Biology and Head of Department of Tumor Biology, Karolinska Institute
- 1951-1957 Assistant Professor of Cell Research
- 1947-1949 Research Fellow, Karolinska Institute
- 1946 Instructor in pathology, Budapest University
- 1945 Instructor in histology, Budapest University
Fields of Scholarship
- Immunology
- Virology
- Genetic aspects of tumor biology
Honours and Awards
- 1966 Honorary Doctor, University of Chicago
- 1989 Honorary Doctor, Hebrew University, Jerusalem
- 1991 Honorary Doctor, University of Nebraska
- 1994 Honorary Doctor, Tel Aviv University
- 2001 Honorary Doctor of Medical Science, Osaka University
- 1957-1993 Member of the Nobel Assembly of Karolinska Institutet
- 1999 Titular member of the European Academy of Sciences, Arts and Humanities
- 1999 Academy of Cancer Immunology
- 2002 Honorary Fellowship of the European Association for Cancer Research
- Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
- Foreign Member of the Finnish Scientific Society
- Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States
- Honorary Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
- Honorary Member of the American Association of Immunologists
- Foreign Member of the American Philosophical Society
- Honorary Member of the French Society of Immunology
- Honorary Foreign Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Honorary Member of the American Association for Cancer Research
- Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of Ludwig Institute
- 1960 Bertha Goldblatt Teplitz Award together with Eva Klein
- 1967 Prize of the Danish Pathological Society
- 1972 Rabbi Shai Shacknai Prize in Tumor Immunology
- 1973 Bertner Award
- 1973 Annual Award of the American Cancer Society
- 1974 Prix Griffuel
- 1975 Harvey Prize
- 1976 Gardner Award
- 1977 Behring Prize
- 1978 Björken Prize
- 1979 Sloan Prize from the General Motors Cancer Research Foundation
- 1979 Award of the Santa Chiara Academy, Italy
- 1983 Erik Fernström Prize (with Eva Klein)
- 1983 Anniversary Prize of the Swedish Medical Association
- 1989 The Letterstedt Prize of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
- 1990 Dobloug Prize of the Swedish Academy of Literature
- 1990 Lisl and Leo Eitinger's Prize of Oslo University
- 1995 Dr Tovi Comel-Walerstein C.A.I.R Institute Science Award for 1995 (Bar-Ilan University, Israel)
- 1996 Thomas P. Infusino Prize and Lectureship in Cancer Causation and Epidemiology (together with Eva Klein).
- 1996 Kaposi Award
- 1996 Chester Stock Award of Sloan Kettering Memorial Center
- 1998 Orden Nacional al Mérito de la República de Colombia
- 1998 Robert Koch gold medal
- 1998 Institute of Human Virology, Lifetime Achievement Award
- 1999 Prize of the Brupbacher Foundation, Zürich
- 2001 Paracelsus medal
- 2001 The Wick R. Williams Memorial Lecture Award
- 2002 Ingemar Hedenius Prize
- 2005 G.J. Mendel honorary medal for merit in the biological sciences
- 2006 IARC medal of honour
- 2008 Herbert J. Block Memorial Lectureship Award at the Ohio State University
- 2009 Biomedicum medaljen, Helsinfors,Finland
- 2010 KI:s Jubileumsmedalj
- 2010 Royal Award of The Swedish Academy
- 2010 Distinguished Professor Award Karolinska Institute
