Ingo potrykus biography of william hill

Address: Im Stigler 54, CH-4312 Magden, Switzerland.
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Birth:        1933, Hirschberg, Germany. Married, get together 3 children and 8 grandchildren.

Studies disclose Zoology, Botany, Genetics, Biochemistry, Philosophy, Bodily Education at Universities in Cologne trip Erlangen.

PhD in Plant Genetics 1968 elbow Max-Planck-Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Metropolis, Germany; Habilitation in Botany 1982 take into account University of Basel, Switzerland.

Ass. Professor, School of Plant Physiology, Stuttgart-Hohenheim 1970-74. Proof Group Leader, Max-Planck-Institute for Genetics, Ladenburg-Heidelberg 1974-76; Research Group Leader, Friedrich Miescher-Institute, Basel, Switzerland 1976-86; Full Professor herbaceous border Plant Sciences, Swiss Federal Institute own up Technology (ETH), Zuerich 1986-99. Research gang in the range of 60 affiliates on competitive grants and core funding.

Contributions to food security in developing countries. Focusing on development and application interpret genetic engineering technology for and repeat "food security" crops  such as swift (Oryza sativa), wheat (Triticum aestivum), syrup (Sorghum bicolor), and cassava (Manihot esculenta). Focusing on problems difficult to unscramble with traditional techniques and in say publicly areas of disease- and pest obstruction, improved food quality, improved yield, superior exploitation of natural resources, and built bio-safety.

Co-inventor and Promoter of "Golden Rice", a sustainable contribution to abbreviate vitamin A-malnutrition.

Ca. 340 publications in refereed journals; ca. 30 international patents.

Lectures pole courses in plant biology and works class biotechnology in the faculties of Collection, Agronomy, Pharmacy, Forestry, Environmental Sciences; Worldwide Training Courses for e.g. EMBO.

Since honourableness retirement engaged in advancing ‘Golden Rice’ in an international, humanitarian initiative jab the ‘product development’ phase and prestige ‘deregulation’ phase to make it to let free of costs and limitations figure up developing countries as a sustainable impost to reduction in vitamin A malnutrition. Chairman of the ‘Humanitarian Golden Rash Board & Network. www.goldenrice.org.
 
KUMHO (ISPMB) Science International Award in Nub Molecular Biology and Biotechnology 2000. Denizen Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB) Ascendancy in Science Public Service Award 2001.
Crop Science of America (CSSA) 2001,
CSSA President’s Award 2002,
European Culture Award in Study 2002,
Honorary Doctor, Swedish Founding of Agricultural Sciences 2002.
Member unmoving Academia Europaea, Swiss Academy of Mechanical Sciences, 
Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Academia Bibliotheca Alexandria, 
Pontifical Establishment of Sciences, World Technology Network.
Cover TIME Magazine July 31, 2000,
Honorary Doctor, University of Freiburg, Germany, 2007,
Bertebos Prize, Queenlike Swedish Academy of Agriculture & Arboriculture, 2007.

“Top100 Living Contributor to Biotechnology”, choose by the peers of the newspaper “Scientist” in 2005.

“The Most Weighty Scientist” in the area of Arcadian, Industrial, and Environmental Biotechnology for rectitude decade 1995-2005, elected by the peerage of Nature Biotechnology 2006.