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Jonathan Knowles
Nationality: British
Studies
Magdalen College School, Oxford
1st Class Honours Degree in Molecular Genetics, University of East
Anglia, England 1969
Ph.D. in Genetics of Mitochondria with Professor G.H. Beale F.R.S., University of
Edinburgh, Scotland, 1973
Positions held
1973-1974: | S.R.C. Post Doctoral Research Fellow with Professor G.H. Beale, F.R.S., Department of Genetics, University of Edinburgh, Scotland |
1975: | EMBO short term fellowship at Centre de Génétique Moléculaire, CNRS, Gif-sur-Yvette, France |
1975-1977: | Royal Society European Exchange Fellowship at Centre de Génétique Moléculaire, CNRS, Gif-sur-Yvette, France (with Professor P. Slonimski and Dr J. Beisson) |
1977 | Volkswagen fellowship at the University of Tübingen and Max-Planck Institut, Tübingen, Germany
3 months NIH fellowship at the University of Colorado Medical Centre, Dept. of Microbiology and Immunology, Denver |
1978-1980: | EMBO fellowship to Department of Medical Chemistry and Department of Genetics, University of Helsinki, Finland |
1979: | Visiting Assistant Professor, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, NY
Appointed Docent of the University of Helsinki |
1980-1986: | Head of the recombinant DNA group at the Biotechnical Laboratory, VTT, Helsinki, Finland |
1986-1989: | Research Professor and Head of Molecular Biology at the Biotechnical Laboratory, VTT, Helsinki, Finland |
1989-1997: | Director of the Glaxo Institute for Molecular Biology, Geneva, Switzerland |
1995-1997: | Research Director, Glaxo Wellcome Europe
Responsible for all preclinical research at the four European sites at Verona, Paris, Madrid and Geneva (500 people) |
1997: | Head of Research, F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd |
1998: | Member of the Corporate Executive Committee of the Roche Group |
1998: | Member of the Board of Directors of Genentech (Roche Subsidiary) |
2003: | Member of the Board of Directors of Chugai Pharmaceuticals (Roche Subsidiary) |
2004: | Chairman of the Research Directors' Group (RDG) of EFPIA (European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industry Associations) |
Scientific Advisory Boards and Review Committees
- Scientific advisory board, Labsystems (to 1989)
- Institute
of Biotechnology, University of Helsinki
- Oulu Biocentre, University
of Oulu
- Turku Biocentre, University of Oulu
- Member
of TNO Biotechnology group Review Board
- Biotechnology programs
at six different TNO Institutes (1992)
- Member of Review for
the Medical and Technological Laboratory, TNO (1993)
- Member
of Review Board for Protein Structure Lab Cambridge (1995)
- Member
of Review Board for Technology foundation Stockholm 1996
- Member
of the European Molecular Biology Organisation, (EMBO) Heidelberg (since 1998)
- Member
of the Board of Management of EuropaBio, Brussels (1999-2002)
- Member
of the Scientific Board at the Institute of Biotechnology, Helsinki (2001 - 2005)
- Member
of the Singapore National Science & Technology Board (2001)
- Honorary
Professorship at the University of Basel (2001)
- Chairman of the
HEVER Group (2007)
- Chairman of the Scientific Board at the Institute
of Biotechnology, University Helsinki (2007)
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Prof. Jonathan K.C. Knowles, member of the Roche Executive Committee and Head of
Group Research
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