Wilhelm Gruissem

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Wilhelm Gruissem (born March 9, 1952 in Duisburg ) is a German biologist and has been a full professor of plant biotechnology at the Institute for Plant Sciences at ETH Zurich since July 1, 2000 .

Life

Wilhelm Gruissem was born on March 9, 1952 in Duisburg. He studied biology and chemistry at the University of Bonn , where he received his doctorate in 1979 under Professor Werner Gottschalk at the Institute for Genetics. He spent the following two years as a research assistant at the Institute for Physiological Chemistry at the University of Marburg . He then went to the University of Colorado in the USA on a research fellowship . In 1983 he was appointed Assistant Professor of Plant Biology at the University of California at Berkeley , where he was appointed Professor in 1990. From 1993 to 1998 he was director of the Department of Plant and Microbial Biology at Berkeley. He has been a full professor at ETH Zurich since July 1, 2000.

His research focuses on biochemical synthesis pathways and molecules that help control plant growth and chloroplast development.

Prof. Gruissem is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science , a member of various scientific societies and editor of several scientific journals. He has received a number of awards for his research.

In 1998, Gruissem was at the center of a science-policy controversy in the USA. His department at UC Berkeley entered into a collaboration with the Novartis Agro Discovery Institute (now Syngenta) that cost Novartis $ 25 million. Gruissem is considered to be the architect of this agreement, which required researchers, among other things, to sign a contract that forbade them to publish scientific results without the consent of Novartis.

Gruissem has worked as a consultant for numerous companies, including Monsanto and Syngenta .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See Sheldon Krimsky, Science in the Private Interest. Has the Lure of Profits Cormpted Biomedical Research? Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., Lanham / Boulder / NY / Oxford 2003, pages 35 to 38.
  2. ↑ http://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/schweiz/standard/Kameras-und-Sicherheitspersonal-mit-Hunden-fuer-ein-Weizenfeld/story/30708950
personal data
SURNAME Gruissem, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German biochemist and plant scientist
DATE OF BIRTH March 9, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Duisburg