Weissmann, Charles
Person
Biography
Charles Weissmann was born on October 14, 1931 in Budapest, Hungary. He obtained his MD in 1956 and a Ph.D in Organic Chemistry in 1961 from Zurich University. Dr. Weissmann was director of the Institute for Molecular Biology in Zurich and President of the Roche Research Foundation from 1971-1977. In 1978, Charles Weissmann co-founded the biotech company Biogen in Geneva, Switzerland. Dr. Weissmann resigned from the Biogen Science Board in 1986 and the company merged with IDEC in 2003. He is Professor Emeritus of both the Department of Immunology and Microbial Science (IMS) and the Department of Infectious Diseases at Scripps Research Institute, Florida.
Dr. Weissmann is particularly known for the first cloning and expression of interferon and his contributions to the unraveling of the molecular genetics of neurogenerative prion diseases such as Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. Dr. Weissmann has won many awards, notably the Warren Alpert Foundation Prize in 2003 for his work with the purification, characterization, and cloning of human interferon-alpha.
Found in 18 Collections and/or Records:
Charles Sherr, 2002-06-15
Item — Multiple Containers
Scope and Contents
Charles Sherr, cancer researcher, is interviewed by Mila Pollock on June 15, 2002, at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, in Cold Spring Harbor, New York.Scene 1. Becoming a scientist -- Scene 2. Virology research -- Scene 3. First visit to Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory -- Scene 4. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory: Symposia and meetings -- Scene 5. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory: Board of Trustees -- Scene 6. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Scientist: David Beach -- Scene 7. Advice for...
Dates:
2002-06-15
Handwritten letter from Charles Weissman to Sydney Brenner #1, 8/7/1983
Item — Box CP19, Folder: 12
Identifier: SB_1_1_761_3
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The Correspondence series consists of incoming and outgoing handwritten and typed letters, carbons, postcards, faxes, and telegrams generated during Sydney Brenner's career. The bulk of this series covers the late 1940s to the 2000s. Correspondents include over 30 Nobel laureates, as well as biochemists, geneticists, students, publishers, and others. Highlights of the collection include the correspondence from Francis Crick, with whom Brenner shared an office for 20 years. Topics covered...
Dates:
8/7/1983
Handwritten letter from Charles Weissman to Sydney Brenner #2, 5/4/1983
Item — Box CP19, Folder: 12
Identifier: SB_1_1_761_4
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The Correspondence series consists of incoming and outgoing handwritten and typed letters, carbons, postcards, faxes, and telegrams generated during Sydney Brenner's career. The bulk of this series covers the late 1940s to the 2000s. Correspondents include over 30 Nobel laureates, as well as biochemists, geneticists, students, publishers, and others. Highlights of the collection include the correspondence from Francis Crick, with whom Brenner shared an office for 20 years. Topics covered...
Dates:
5/4/1983
Letter from A. Fiechter to Sydney Brenner, 6/4/1985
Item — Box CP19, Folder: 12
Identifier: SB_1_1_761_2
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The Correspondence series consists of incoming and outgoing handwritten and typed letters, carbons, postcards, faxes, and telegrams generated during Sydney Brenner's career. The bulk of this series covers the late 1940s to the 2000s. Correspondents include over 30 Nobel laureates, as well as biochemists, geneticists, students, publishers, and others. Highlights of the collection include the correspondence from Francis Crick, with whom Brenner shared an office for 20 years. Topics covered...
Dates:
6/4/1985
Letter from Charles Weissman to Sydney Brenner, 1/3/1983
Item — Box CP19, Folder: 12
Identifier: SB_1_1_761_6
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The Correspondence series consists of incoming and outgoing handwritten and typed letters, carbons, postcards, faxes, and telegrams generated during Sydney Brenner's career. The bulk of this series covers the late 1940s to the 2000s. Correspondents include over 30 Nobel laureates, as well as biochemists, geneticists, students, publishers, and others. Highlights of the collection include the correspondence from Francis Crick, with whom Brenner shared an office for 20 years. Topics covered...
Dates:
1/3/1983
Letter from Sydney Brenner to A. Fiechter, 10/6/1985
Item — Box CP19, Folder: 12
Identifier: SB_1_1_761_1
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The Correspondence series consists of incoming and outgoing handwritten and typed letters, carbons, postcards, faxes, and telegrams generated during Sydney Brenner's career. The bulk of this series covers the late 1940s to the 2000s. Correspondents include over 30 Nobel laureates, as well as biochemists, geneticists, students, publishers, and others. Highlights of the collection include the correspondence from Francis Crick, with whom Brenner shared an office for 20 years. Topics covered...
Dates:
10/6/1985
Letter from Sydney Brenner to Charles Weissman #1, 21/03/1983
Item — Box CP19, Folder: 12
Identifier: SB_1_1_761_5
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The Correspondence series consists of incoming and outgoing handwritten and typed letters, carbons, postcards, faxes, and telegrams generated during Sydney Brenner's career. The bulk of this series covers the late 1940s to the 2000s. Correspondents include over 30 Nobel laureates, as well as biochemists, geneticists, students, publishers, and others. Highlights of the collection include the correspondence from Francis Crick, with whom Brenner shared an office for 20 years. Topics covered...
Dates:
21/03/1983
Letter from Sydney Brenner to Charles Weissman #2, 21/02/1980
Item — Box CP19, Folder: 12
Identifier: SB_1_1_761_7
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The Correspondence series consists of incoming and outgoing handwritten and typed letters, carbons, postcards, faxes, and telegrams generated during Sydney Brenner's career. The bulk of this series covers the late 1940s to the 2000s. Correspondents include over 30 Nobel laureates, as well as biochemists, geneticists, students, publishers, and others. Highlights of the collection include the correspondence from Francis Crick, with whom Brenner shared an office for 20 years. Topics covered...
Dates:
21/02/1980
Letter from Sydney Brenner to Jeffrey H. Miller #6, 8/7/1980
Item — Box CP01, Folder: 31
Identifier: SB_1_1_422_29
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The Correspondence series consists of incoming and outgoing handwritten and typed letters, carbons, postcards, faxes, and telegrams generated during Sydney Brenner's career. The bulk of this series covers the late 1940s to the 2000s. Correspondents include over 30 Nobel laureates, as well as biochemists, geneticists, students, publishers, and others. Highlights of the collection include the correspondence from Francis Crick, with whom Brenner shared an office for 20 years. Topics covered...
Dates:
8/7/1980
Series 2: Biotechnology: Past, Present and Future (September 21-23), 2008
Series
Scope and Contents
In this meeting participants (including sociologists and economists) discussed the early days of biotechnology and examined how the scientific and business worlds came together. Participants included: Richard Roberts, Charles Weissmann, MaryAnn Feldman, Robert Olby. See http://library.cshl.edu/Meetings/HistBiotech/index.html.
Dates:
2008
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- Asilomar Conference on Recombinant DNA Molecules. 1
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- Celera Genomics 1
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