Walter Bodmer (biologist)

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Sir Walter Fred Bodmer (born January 10, 1936 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a British human geneticist . Since 1974 he has been a member of the Royal Society .

Life

Since Walter Bodmer's father was Jewish , he and his young family had to leave Germany in 1938. She found a new home in Manchester , England , where Walter Bodmer attended Grammar School . He passed the most prestigious tripos in mathematics at the University of Cambridge . In 1956 he married the British geneticist Julia Bodmer (1934-2001), née Pilkington. The couple had three children.

Bodmer received his doctorate in Cambridge in 1959 with a thesis on population genetics ; to do this he had examined the stemless cowslip and the house mouse .

Bodmer then moved to Stanford University in 1961 , as a research assistant to Nobel Prize winner Joshua Lederberg . The University of Oxford appointed him in 1970 to the newly established professorship for genetics. There the Bodmers researched the antigen system of human leukocytes. In 1972 Bodmer was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . He has been a member of the European Molecular Biology Organization since 1974 . In 1980 he was awarded the William Allan Award . Walter Bodmer chaired a committee that discussed the public understanding of natural science in 1985. In 1981 he became a Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences . In 1986 he was ennobled as a Knight Bachelor and since then has had the suffix "Sir". In 1989 he was elected a member of the Academia Europaea and the American Philosophical Society .

He was among the first to advocate sequencing the human genome. From 1991 to 1993 he served as President of the Human Genome Organization (HUGO). Cancer research in his own laboratory qualified him as General Director (1991 to 1996) of the Imperial Cancer Research Fund . In 2005, the Wellcome Trust entrusted Walter Bodmer with the management of a large-scale project that recorded the genetic makeup of the British population. In 1994 he was awarded the Michael Faraday Prize of the Royal Society for his contributions to popularizing the sciences.

Bodmer's research focuses on the genetic mechanisms of colon cancer and its stem cells.

In 2013 he received the Royal Medal .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.imm.ox.ac.uk/walter-bodmer-2
  2. ↑ Lady Bodmer. In: telegraph.co.uk. February 22, 2001, accessed May 29, 2016 .
  3. ^ Archive catalog Sir Walter and Lady Julia Bodmer
  4. ^ Walter F Bodmer: The study of population genetics and gene effects, with special reference to Primula vulgaris and the house mouse. Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1959.
  5. ↑ Book of Members 1780 – present, Chapter B. (PDF; 1.2 MB) In: American Academy of Arts and Sciences (amacad.org). Retrieved October 27, 2017 (English).
  6. ↑ Committee of the Royal Society ( Memento from October 19, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  7. ^ Member Directory: Walter Bodmer. National Academy of Sciences, accessed October 27, 2017 .
  8. ↑ Knights and Dames: BED-BUG at Leigh Rayment's Peerage
  9. ^ Directory of members: Walter Bodmer. Academia Europaea, accessed on October 27, 2017 (English, with biographical and other information).
  10. ↑ Member History: Walter Bodmer. American Philosophical Society, accessed May 9, 2018 (English, with short biography).
  11. ↑ HUGO Presidents
  12. ^ Walter F Bodmer: The Imperial Cancer Research Fund in the 1980s. In: Postgrad Med J 66/1990, Suppl 1: pp. 18-22.
  13. ↑ N. Ashley, TM Yeung, WF Bodmer: Stem cell differentiation and lumen formation in colorectal cancer cell lines and primary tumors. In: Cancer Research . Volume 73, Number 18, September 2013, pp. 5798-5809, doi: 10.1158 / 0008-5472.CAN-13-0454 , PMID 23867471 . PDF .
personal data
SURNAME Bodmer, Walter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bodmer, Sir Walter Fred (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British human geneticist
DATE OF BIRTH January 10, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main