Witold Filipowicz#
| Membership Number: | 2332 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2005 |
| Main Country of Residence: | SWITZERLAND |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.fmi.ch/about/people/emeriti/emeriti.html?group=9 |
Present and Previous Positions
- since 2012 Professor Emeritus, but still conducting research at the Friedrich Miescher Institute, Basel
- 1984-2012 Senior Staff Scientist and Group Leader, Friedrich Miescher Institute, Basel
- 1997 Titular Professor, Biozentrum, University of Basel, Switzerland
- 1980-1981 Visiting Scientist (sabbatical), Roche Institute of Molecular Biology, Nutley, NJ, USA (Dr. A. J. Shatkin)
- 1978 Visting Scientist, Institute Jacques Monod, Paris (Dr. A.-L. Haenni)
- 1976-1984 Adjunct and Associate Professor, Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Warsaw
- 1974-1976 Post-doctoral fellow, New York University and Roche Institute of Molecular Biology, Nutley, NJ, USA (Drs. S. Ochoa and A.J. Shatkin)
- 1968-1973 Pre-doctoral fellow, Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw (Dr. P. Szafranski)
Fields of Scholarship
- Post-transcriptinal regulation of gene expression
- Biogenesis and function of RNA
- Mechanism and regulation of translation
- RNA interference and microRNAs
- Enzymes involved in RNA transactions
Honours and Awards
- 1972 and 1982 Awards of the Scientific Secretary of the Polish Academy of Sciences
- 1974 and 1980 Awards of the Biological Section of the Polish Academy of Sciences
- 1978 The Skarzynski Award, Polish Biochemical Society
- 1985 The Jakub Karol Parnas Award, Polish Biochemical Society
- 2005 Foreign Member, Polish Academy of Sciences
- 2005 Member, Academia Europea
- 2011 Lifetime Achievement in Science Award of RNA Society, RNA2011, Kyoto
- 2013/14 The Gutenberg Chair (Chaire Gutenberg) 2014 Prize, Strasbourg
- Member of EMBO and Academia Europaea; Foreign Member, Polish Academy of Sciences
