Curriculum Vitae
Personal Data:
Born: May 21, 1936 in Waltersdorf/Silesia, Germany
Married: to Laura Maioglio, owner of Barbetta Restaurant
Home: 1100 Park Avenue, Apt. 10D,
New York, N. Y. 10128; Phone
(212) 369-3552
Office: Laboratory of Cell Biology, The Rockefeller University,
Howard Hughes Medical Institute, 1230 York Avenue,
New York, N.Y.
10021
http://www.rockefeller.edu/labheads/blobel/blobel-lab.php
Education and Appointments:
1960 MD degree, University of Tübingen
1960-62 Internship in various German hospitals
1963-67 Ph.D. candidate in Oncology at the McArdle Laboratory for Cancer
Research, University of Wisconsin, Madison,Wisconsin
1967 PhD degree in Oncology with Dr. Van R. Potter
1967-69 Postdoctoral Fellow with Dr. Palade, The Rockefeller
University
1969-73 Assistant Professor, The Rockefeller
University
1973-76 Associate Professor, The Rockefeller
University
1976-present Professor, The Rockefeller University
1986-present Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
1992-present John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Professor, The Rockefeller University
1994- present Founder and President of "Friends of Dresden, Inc."
Awards:
1978 U. S. Steel Award in Molecular Biology
1982 The Gairdner Foundation Award
1983 The Warburg Medal of the German Biochemical Society
1983 The Richard Lounsbery Award
1986 The V. D. Mattia Award
1986 The Wilson Medal of the American Society for Cell Biology (with D. D.
Sabatini)
1987 The Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize
1989 The Waterford
Bio-Medical Science Award
1992 The Max-Planck Forschungspreis
1993 Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award
1995 Ciba Drew Award in Biomedical Research (with J. Schlessinger and A. Levine)
1996 King Faisal International Prize for Science (with J. Rothman and H.
Pelham)
1997 Mayor's Award for Excellence in Science and Technology (with R. Axel)
1999 Massry Prize
1999 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Honors:
1990 President of the American Society for Cell Biology
2000 Grosse Bundesverdienstkreuz mit Stern of the Federal Republic of Germany
2000 Honorary Senator, Technical University of Dresden
Honorary Degrees:
1994- present multiple honorary degrees from national and international academic
institutions and universities
Memberships:
1983 National Academy of Sciences
1983 Leopoldina
1983 Honorary Member of The Japanese Biochemical Society
1984 American Academy of Arts and Sciences
1986 Associate Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization
1988 Honorary Member of the German Society of Cell Biology
1989 American Philosophical Society
2000 Institute of
Medicine
2001 Orden Pour le Merite
2001 Pontifical Academy of Sciences