Witold Filipowicz
Witold Filipowicz - Polish-Swiss biochemist and molecular biologist.
Biography
Filipowicz studied at the Faculty of Medicine of the Medical University of Lodz. He received his PhD and habilitation at the of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw. This was followed by the post-doctoral studies at the New York University Medical School and Roche Institute of Molecular Biology in Nutley, NJ. Since 1984, he has been the head of the laboratory at the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research in Basel, Switzerland. Since 1991, Professor of Biological Sciences at PAN, and since 1997, Professor of the University of Basel. He has trained over 50 PhD students and post-doctoral scholars.Research
Research of Filipowicz has focused on the mechanisms of maturation and function of different classes of RNA molecules and ribonucleoprotein particles, enzymes involved in RNA metabolism, mechanisms of protein synthesis, and mechanisms of RNA interference and microRNA function in mammalian cells. Filipowicz has more than 47,000 citations on Google Scholar.Selected awards and honors
- The Lifetime Achievement in Science Award of the RNA Society.
- Gutenberg Chair Award 2013, Strasbourg.
- Member of European Molecular Biology Organization .
- Member of Academia Europaea ; Chair of the Section of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of Academia Europaea.
- Foreign member, The Polish Academy of Sciences.
- Membership in Scientific Advisory Boards of different institutions, including: The Institute of Molecular Mechanisms and Machines, Polish Academy of Sciences ; National Center of Competence in Research “RNA and Disease”, Bern, Switzerland ; Max-Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Tübingen and Max-Planck Institute of Biophysical Chemistry/MPI-Nat, Göttingen
- Membership in Editorial Boards of different scientific journals, including RNA, RNA Biology, and Cell.