Otto Haller
Otto Haller
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Biography
| Positions | |
| 1972 | Degree of M.D., University of Zürich |
| 1972 - 1975 | Postdoctoral fellow at the Division of Experimental Microbiology, Institute of Medical Microbiology, University of Zürich, Switzerland |
| 1975 - 1977 | Research Associate at the Department of Immunology, Biomedical Center, University of Uppsala, Uppsala, Sweden |
| 1977 - 1982 | Tenured Research Associate at the Institute for Immunology and Virology, University of Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland |
| 1982 - 1983 | Visiting Assistant Professor at the Department of Virology, The Rockefeller University, New York, N.Y., USA |
| 1983 -1989 | Assistant Professor of Virology at the University of Zürich, Zürich Switzerland |
| 1989 - 2012 | Full Professor and Director of the Institute of Virology, Medical Center-University University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany. |
| 2012 - present | Professor emeritus, Institute of Virology, Medical Center-University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany |
| 2018 - present | Guest Professor, Department of Molecular Life Sciences (MLS), University of Zürich, Switzerland |
| Awards and Honors | |
| 1975 | Fellowship of the Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences |
| 1977 | Research Award of the Swiss Society for Microbiology |
| 1977 | Swiss Cancer Prize |
| 1985 | Latsis Prize of the Swiss National Science Foundation |
| 1996 | Aronson Research Award of the Land Berlin |
| 1996 - 1999 | President of the German-Austrian-Swiss Society for Virology (GfV) |
| 1998 | Milstein Award of the International Society for Interferon and Cytokine Research |
| 1998 | Ivanovsky Medal of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences |
| 1998 | Member of the German Academy of Sciences LEOPOLDINA |
| 1999 - 2006 | Vice President, European Society for Clinical Virology (ESCV) |
| 2000 | Visiting Professor, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York |
| 2006 - 2007 | President, International Society for Interferon and Cytokine Research (ISICR) |
| 2009 - 2013 | Founding President, European Society for Virology (ESV) |
| 2009 | Founding Member, European Academy of Microbiology (EAM) |
| 2009 | Award for Excellence in Teaching of the University of Freiburg |
| 2009 | Honorary Member of the European Society for Clinical Virology |
| 2013 | Honorary Lifetime Member of the International Cytokine and Interferon Society (ICIS) |
| 2018 | Loeffler-Frosch Medal of the Society for Virology (GfV) for Scientific Lifetime Achievement in Virology |