Kai SimonsDirector

MEMBERSHIP IN SOCIETIES 1975 European Molecular Biology Organisation --- 1978 Societas Scientarium Fennica --- 1987 Heidelberg Academy of Sciences --- 1996 American Academy of Art and Science --- 1997 Academia Europaea --- 1997 Foreign Member of the National Academy of Sciences, USA --- 1998 German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina --- 2006 - present Member / Fellow of ScanBalt Academy HONOURS 1975 Federation of European Biochemical Society Anniversary Prize --- 1984 Honorary Professor, University of Heidelberg --- 1989 Lamport Visiting Professor (Columbia, New York) --- 1990 Histochemical Society Lecture --- 1990 Keith Porter Lecturer, American Society of Cell Biology --- 1991 Anders Jahre Prize for Medical Research --- 1991 NICHD Lectureship in Cell Biology --- 1993 Carl Zeiss Lecture, German Society for Cell Biology --- 1994 HARVEY SOCIETY Lecture --- 1996 Dunham Lecturer, Harvard University --- 1996 Foreign Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences --- 1997 Runeberg Prize, Finland --- 1997 Adam Neville Lecture, University of Dundee, UK --- 1998 Choh Hao Li Memorial Lecture in Biochemical Endocrinology, University of California at Berkeley --- 1999 Doctor Honoris Causa, University of Oulu, Finland --- 2000 President of the European Life Scientist Organisation --- 2001 Schleiden Medaille awarded of Academy Leopoldina --- 2001 Honorary member of the German Society for Cell Biology --- 2001 ISI Highly cited researcher --- 2002 Hoppe-Seyler Lecture, Society of Biology and Molecular Biology Germany --- 2003 Honorary Professor at TU Dresden --- 2003 Albert Wander Prize, University of Bern, Switzerland --- 2003 Ayräpää Prize, Finland --- 2003 Doctor Honoris Causa, University of Leuven, Belgium --- 2003 Prix Mondial Nessim Habif, University of Geneva, Switzerland --- 2004 Virchow Lecture and Medal, University of Würzburg, Germany --- 2005 Foundation Day Lecture, Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad, India --- 2005 Laurens van Deenen Medal, Utrecht, The Netherlands --- 2006 AIVirtanen Medal, Finland --- 2006 Honorary member of the Societas Biochemica, Biophysica et Microbiologica Fenniae --- 2007 Saxon Order of Merit --- 2010 Doctor honoris causa, University of Kuopio, Finland --- 2011 Doctor honoris causa, University of Geneva, Switzerland