Walter Jakob Gehring
Walter Jakob Gehring | |
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Yale Medical School, Yale University, Biozentrum University of Basel |
Walter Jakob Gehring (20 March 1939[2] – 29 May 2014[3])[4] was a Swiss developmental biologist who was a professor at the Biozentrum Basel of the University of Basel, Switzerland. He obtained his PhD at the University of Zurich in 1965 and after two years as a research assistant of Ernst Hadorn he joined Alan Garen's group at Yale University in New Haven as a postdoctoral fellow.[5]
In 1969 he was appointed associate professor at
Gehring was mainly involved in studies of
In 1983 Gehring and his collaborators (William McGinnis, Michael S. Levine, Ernst Hafen, Richard Garber, Atsushi Kuroiwa, Johannes Wirz), discovered the homeobox, a DNA segment characteristic for homeotic genes which is not only present in arthropods and their ancestors, but also in vertebrates including man.[9]
Gehring was also involved in the development and application of enhancer trapping methods. He and his collaborators identified PAX6 as a master control gene for eye development, which led to a new theory about the monophyletic origin of the eyes in evolution.[10]
Awards
- 1987 Gairdner Foundation International Award
- 1987 Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine[1]
- 1996 Awarded the Otto Warburg Medal[11]
- 1997 Awarded the March of Dimes Prize in Developmental Biology.[12]
- 2000 Received the Kyoto Prize for Basic Science.[13]
- 2001 Alfred Vogt-Preis[14]
- 2002 Received the Balzan Prize for Developmental Biology.[15]
- 2003 A.O. Kovalevsky Medal
References
- ^ a b "Louis-Jeantet Prize, Year: 1987".
- ISBN 9780837957685.
- PMID 25215373.
- ^ "Walter Jakob Gehring (1939–2014) | the Embryo Project Encyclopedia".
- PMID 5002822.
- ^ "New Perspectives on Eye Development and the Evolution of Eyes and Photoreceptors" (PDF). dbio.uevora.pt/. Retrieved 3 June 2014.
- ^ "EMBO & EMBC annual report 2001" (PDF). embo.org/. Retrieved 3 June 2014.
- S2CID 236457532.
- S2CID 4235713.
- PMID 10461206.
- ^ "Otto-Warburg-Medal". GBM. Retrieved 12 January 2014.
- PMID 8979285.
- ^ "The 2000 Kyoto Prize". inamori-f.or.jp. Retrieved 3 June 2014.
- ^ "Alfred Vogt-Stiftung zur Förderung der Augenheilkunde". www.alfred-vogt-stiftung.ch.
- ^ "2002 Balzan Prize for Developmental Biology". balzan.org. Retrieved 3 June 2014.
Further reading
- Walter, Niklaus (2002). "From Transdetermination to the Homeodomain at Atomic Resolution: An interview with Walter J. Gehring". Int. J. Dev. Biol. 46 (1): 29–37. PMID 11902685.