Avrion Mitchison#
| Sadly, this member passed away. | |
| Membership Number: | 960 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CELL & DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 1990 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
Avrion Mitchison passed away December 28, 2022.
Positions Held
- 1971 - 1991 Jodrell Professor of Zoology and Comparative Anatomy, University College London
- Co-founder and from 1991 till 1996 Director of the German des Deutschen Rheumatism Research Centre Berlin (DRFZ)
Fields of Scholarship
- Zoology
- Immunology
Honours and Awards
- 1967 Fellow of the Royal Society
- 1987 Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 1990 Foreign member of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS)
- 1991 Foreign member of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 1995 Novartis Prize for Basic Immunology
- 2001 Robert Koch Medal in Gold
- Honorary Doctorate from the Weizmann Institute
- Sandoz Prize in Basic Immunology
- Founding member of the British Society for Immunology
