THE 2001 LOUIS-JEANTET PRIZE-WINNERS
The information below refers to the time of the award.
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Professor Alain Fischer |
Doctor Iain W. Mattaj |
Professor Alfred Wittinghofer |
THE 2001 LOUIS-JEANTET PRIZE-WINNERS are Alain FISCHER (Paris), Iain W. MATTAJ (Heidelberg) and Alfred WITTINGHOFER (Dortmund).
The 2001 Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine encourages research in three different domains.
Alain FISCHER will pursue his study of hereditary disorders of the immune defence and will expand his outstanding progress of gene therapy in the clinical setting.
Iain W. MATTAJ wants to investigate the assembly of the nuclear envelope after cell division and understand the role certain proteins in this process of vesicle fusion.
Alfred WITTINGHOFER will analyse the structure and function of a new family proteins, the septins, in order to elucidate their importance for signal transmission and cell division.
THE AWARD CEREMONY was held on Friday April 27, 2001, in Geneva (Switzerland).
