Witold Filipowicz

Witold Filipowicz (born August 8, 1943 in Warsaw, Poland) - Polish-Swiss biochemist and molecular biologist.

Biography Filipowicz studied at the Faculty of Medicine of the Medical University of Lodz. He received his PhD and habilitation at the Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics of the Polish Academy of Sciences (PAS) in Warsaw. Since 1984, he has been the head of the laboratory at the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research in Basel, Switzerland (currently emeritus). Filipowicz has more than 47,000 citations on Google Scholar.

Selected awards and honors

The Lifetime Achievement in Science Award of the RNA Society (2011). Gutenberg Chair Award (Chaire Gutenberg) 2013, Strasbourg. Member of European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) (since 1994). Member of Academia Europaea (since 2005); Chair of the Section of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of Academia Europaea (2013-2021). Foreign member, The Polish Academy of Sciences (since 2005). Membership in Scientific Advisory Boards of different institutions, including: The Institute of Molecular Mechanisms and Machines, Polish Academy of Sciences (IMol) (since 2022); National Center of Competence in Research (NCCR) “RNA and Disease”, Bern, Switzerland (since 2014); Max-Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Tübingen (2018-2024) Membership in Editorial Boards of different scientific journals, including RNA (since 1997), RNA Biology (since 2004), and Cell (2008-2016).

Selected publications