Vito Turk#
| Membership Number: | 1062 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 1991 |
| Main Country of Residence: | SLOVENIA |
| Homepage(s): | http://bio.ijs.si/director.htm |
Present and Past Positions
- since 1997 Chairman of the IUBMB (International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology) Committee on Symposia and Interest Groups and member of the IUBMB Executive Committee
- 1990 - 1998 Secretary General of FEBS (Federation of European Biochemical Societies)
- 1987 - 1991 President of the Yugoslav Federation of Biochemical Societies
- 1987 - 1989 President of the FEBS (Federation of European Biochemical Societies) Executive Committee
- 1984 - 1987 President of ICOP (International Committee on Proteolysis)
- 1981 - 1984 President of ECOP (European Committee on Proteolysis)
Fields of Scholarship
- Experimental biology
- Biochemistry
Honours and Awards
- 1969 and 1978 Boris Kidric Foundation Prize
- 1984 Boris Kidric Foundation Prize for R&D achievements
- 1985 Frey and Werle Prize of the Ludwig-Maximilians University (Munich, Germany) for advances in the study of kallikrein-kinin system
- 1991 Heyrowsky Silver Medal of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences and Arts for scientific achievements in chemistry
- since 1991 Member of the European Academy
- 1993 Ambassador of Science of the Republic of Slovenia
- since 1998 Member of International Engineering Academy (Moscow, Russia)
- 1998 "Zois Award" for achievements in science (Ljubljana, Slovenia)
- 1998/99 FEBS "Ferdinand Springer Lecturer"
- since 1999 EMBO (European Molecular Biology Organisation) Member
- 1999 FEBS Diplome d'Honneur
- 2000 Honorary member of the Croatian Biochemical Society
- 2002 Emeritus Professor at Tokushima Bunri University (Tokushima, Japan)
- 2002 The Silver Order of Freedom of the Republic of Slovenia for outstanding contributions in the field of science and merits for the affirmation of the Republic of Slovenia abroad
- 2003 Honorary lifetime membership in “The International Proteolysis Society” (IPS)
- 2005 Member of Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Ljubljana
- 2005 Member of The World Academy of Art and Science, USA
