Biography:Witold Filipowicz
Witold Filipowicz | |
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| Born | 8th August 1943 Warsaw,Poland |
| Citizenship | Polish, Swiss |
| Alma mater | Medical University of Lodz, Poland |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | biochemistry, molecular biology |
| Institutions | Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Warsaw, Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Basel |
Witold Filipowicz (born August 8, 1943 in Warsaw, Poland) - Polish-Swiss biochemist and molecular biologist.
Biography
Filipowicz studied at the Faculty of Medicine of the Medical University of Lodz.[1] He received his PhD and habilitation at the Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics of the Polish Academy of Sciences (PAS) in Warsaw.[1] This was followed by the post-doctoral studies at the New York University Medical School and Roche Institute of Molecular Biology in Nutley, NJ (laboratories of Severo Ochoa and Aaron J. Shatkin).[2] Since 1984, he has been the head of the laboratory at the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research in Basel, Switzerland (currently emeritus).[2] Since 1991, Professor of Biological Sciences at PAN, and since 1997, Professor (now emeritus) of the University of Basel.[1] 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 (RNPs), enzymes involved in RNA metabolism, mechanisms of protein synthesis, and mechanisms of RNA interference (RNAi) and microRNA (miRNA) function in mammalian cells.[3] Filipowicz has more than 47,000 citations on Google Scholar.[4]
Selected awards and honors
- The Lifetime Achievement in Science Award of the RNA Society (2011).[5]
- Gutenberg Chair Award (Chaire Gutenberg) 2013, Strasbourg.[6]
- Member of European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)[7] (since 1994).
- Member of Academia Europaea (since 2005); Chair of the Section of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of Academia Europaea (2013-2021).[8]
- Foreign member, The Polish Academy of Sciences[9] (since 2005).
- Membership in Scientific Advisory Boards of different institutions, including: The Institute of Molecular Mechanisms and Machines, Polish Academy of Sciences (IMol)[10] (since 2022); National Center of Competence in Research (NCCR) “RNA and Disease”, Bern, Switzerland[11] (since 2014); Max-Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Tübingen[1] (2008-2018) and Max-Planck Institute of Biophysical Chemistry/MPI-Nat, Göttingen[12] (2018-2024)
- Membership in Editorial Boards of different scientific journals, including RNA (since 1997), RNA Biology (since 2004), and Cell (2008-2016).[1]
Selected publications
- Filipowicz, W.; Furuichi, Y.; Sierra, J.M.; Muthukrishnan, S.; Shatkin, A.J.; Ochoa, S. (1976). "A protein binding the methylated 5'-terminal sequence, m7GpppN, of eukaryotic messenger RNA". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 73 (5): 1559–1563. doi:10.1073/pnas.73.5.1559. ISSN 0027-8424. PMID 1064023.
- Konarska, M.; Filipowicz, W.; Domdey, H.; Gross, H.J. (1981). "Formation of a 2′-phosphomonoester, 3′,5′-phosphodiester linkage by a novel RNA ligase in wheat germ". Nature 293 (5828): 112–116. doi:10.1038/293112a0. ISSN 0028-0836. PMID 7266664. Bibcode: 1981Natur.293..112K. https://www.nature.com/articles/293112a0#citeas.
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 "Academy of Europe: CV". https://www.ae-info.org/ae/Member/Filipowicz_Witold/CV.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 FMI. "FMI - Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research - Witold Filipowicz". https://www.fmi.ch/research-groups/former/emeriti/emeriti.html?group=9#pills-biography.
- ↑ FMI. "FMI - Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research - Witold Filipowicz". https://www.fmi.ch/research-groups/former/emeriti/emeriti.html?group=9#pills-research.
- ↑ "Filipowicz Witold". https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=K09zPwUAAAAJ&hl=pl&oi=ao.
- ↑ "Lifetime Achievement Awards". https://www.rnasociety.org/lifetime-achievement-awards.
- ↑ "Titulaires Chaires Gutenberg - Cercle Gutenberg". http://www.cercle-gutenberg.fr/en/titulaires-et-laureats/titulaires-et-laureats/.
- ↑ "Find people in the EMBO Communities". https://people.embo.org/profile/witold-filipowicz.
- ↑ "Academy of Europe: Filipowicz Witold". https://www.ae-info.org/ae/Member/Filipowicz_Witold.
- ↑ "Division II - Polish Academy of Sciences". Polish Academy of Sciences. 2025-01-14. https://pan.pl/en/division-ii/.
- ↑ "Scientific Board". 2024-03-20. https://imol.institute/about-us/scientific-board/.
- ↑ "Home". 2025-03-03. https://nccr-rna-and-disease.ch/.
- ↑ "Scientific Advisory Board". https://www.mpinat.mpg.de/644829/SAB.
External links
- Witold Filipowicz, Traversing the RNA world
- Pubmed Witold Filipowicz
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