Ari Helenius
Ari Helenius (born 3 September 1944) is a Finnish emeritus professor of biochemistry who is known for his research in virology.
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Personal life
Helenius was born 3 September 1944 in Oulu, Finland.[1]
Career
He did his PhD with Kai Simons at the University of Helsinki in 1973. From 1975 until 1981 he worked as a staff scientist at the newly-created European Molecular Biology Laboratory. From 1981 to 1997, he was a professor at Yale University, where he was chair of the department of cell biology from 1992 to 1997.[1][2] In 1997, he joined the ETH Zurich as a founding member of the Institute of Biochemistry.[3]
His research has earned him awards for the characterization of how viruses enter cells, and methods of protein folding and assembly.[2] In 1999, he was appointed a member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO).
Awards
- 1973 Komppa Prize for the best doctoral thesis in chemistry in Finland
- 1991 and 1992 Humboldt Research Award[2]
- 1992 Lamb Professorship of Molecular Pathogenesis at the Vanderbilt University
- 1992 NICHD Lectureship in Cell Biology des National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), USA
- 1993 Honorary Professor of Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Bucharest
- 1995 AI Virtanen Prize in Biochemistry
- 1997 Spinoza Visiting Professorship at the University of Amsterdam
- 2001 Elected member of the National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
- 2002 Member of the Academia Europaea[4]
- 2003 Schleiden Medal of the Leopoldina
- 2003 Foreign Member of the Finnish Academy of Sciences
- 2003 Ernst Jung Prize for Medicine, together with Reinhard G. Lührmann (Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen)
- 2007 Order of the White Rose of Finland from the Finnish government
- 2007 Marcel Benoist Prize[5]
- 2008 Van Deenen Medal for leading research on biomembranes[6]
- 2009 Elected Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences[7]
- 2010 Otto Warburg Medal from the Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
- 2010 Elected fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology[8]
- 2010 Bijvoet Medal of the Bijvoet Center for Biomolecular Research at Utrecht University[9]
- 2011 Heinrich Pette Lecture of the Heinrich Pette Institute[10]
- 2012 Keith R. Porter Lecture
- 2016 Loeffler-Frosch Medal of the Society of Virology
References
- "Prof. Dr. Ari Helenius". www.bc.biol.ethz.ch. Retrieved 18 August 2018.
- "Mitgliederverzeichnis". www.leopoldina.org (in German). Retrieved 14 May 2021.
- "Ari Helenius, PhD | The Vallee Foundation". www.thevalleefoundation.org. Retrieved 18 August 2018.
- "Mitgliederverzeichnis: Ari Helenius". Academia Europaea. Retrieved 9 August 2017.
- "Ari Helenius Awarded Benoist Prize | 26 November 2007 Issue – Vol. 85 Issue 48 | Chemical & Engineering News". cen.acs.org. Retrieved 18 August 2018.
- "Van Deenen Medal". Biomembranes.nl. Institute of Biomembranes. Retrieved 13 February 2017.
- „Elected new members 2009“
- "Ari Helenius". Retrieved 18 August 2018.
- "Bijvoet Medal". Bijvoet Center for Biomolecular Research. Archived from the original on 12 September 2017. Retrieved 21 September 2017.
- "Einzelansicht". Leibniz-LIV (in German). Retrieved 19 November 2022.