{"id":2965,"date":"2022-01-31T10:29:14","date_gmt":"2022-01-31T09:29:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.isrec.ch\/a-tribute-to-prof-heidi-diggelmann-1936-2022\/"},"modified":"2023-08-09T16:01:30","modified_gmt":"2023-08-09T14:01:30","slug":"a-tribute-to-prof-heidi-diggelmann-1936-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.isrec.ch\/en\/a-tribute-to-prof-heidi-diggelmann-1936-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"A tribute to Prof. Heidi Diggelmann (1936-2022)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"intro-text\">\n<p>Prof. Heidi Diggelmann was a group leader at the Institut Suisse de Recherche Exp\u00e9rimentale sur le Cancer (ISREC) in Epalinges (1971-1991) before becoming head of the University of Lausanne Institute of Microbiology (1991-2001). She then served as a member of the ISREC Foundation Council from 2001 to 2012. The institute and the foundation are deeply grateful to Prof. Diggelmann for her invaluable expertise and her commitment to our missions over the past years.<br \/>\nAfter her studies in medicine in her hometown Bern, Heidi Diggelmann initially considered pursuing a clinical career in internal medicine. However, after a brief stint at the district hospital in Thun, she discovered the appeal of laboratory work during her research for her doctoral thesis in Bern. She was immediately attracted to the new field of molecular biology, still in its infancy at the time.<br \/>\nA renowned scientist, Heidi Diggelmann mainly devoted her 40-year scientific career to the study of carcinogenic viruses. Her research especially aimed to understand the mechanisms involved in the replication of retroviruses, known to cause various types of cancers in animals and human beings. Her studies were also devoted to the understanding of the immune system.<br \/>\nHeidi Diggelmann received numerous prestigious awards for her research, including the Friedrich Miescher Award (1976), the Max Clo\u00ebtta Prize (1984), the Otto Naegeli Prize of the Bonizzi-Theler Foundation (1992) and the \u201cPrix de l\u2019Etat de Berne\u201d of the University of Lausanne (2002).<br \/>\nIn addition to her research and teaching activities, Heidi Diggelmann was deeply committed to research policy issues. She was in particular a member of the Swiss Committee for Biological Safety (1990-1995), the ETH Board (1990-1996), the Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences, as well as the Science et Cit\u00e9 Foundation. Furthermore, from 1997 to 2004 she was the president of the Research Council of the Swiss National Science Foundation.<br \/>\nThe ISREC Institute\u2019s scientists in 1988, standing from left to right: Paul Amstad, Christophe Reymond, Rex Tyrrell, Viesturs Simanis, Bernard Sordat, Peter Cerutti, Bernhard Hirt (Director), Otto Hagenb\u00fcchle, Elena Buetti, Erich Nigg et Markus Nabholz. Sitting from left to right: Peter Wellauer, Jean-Pierre Kraehenbuhl, Heidi Diggelmann, Lukas K\u00fchn, Susan Gasser et Peter Beard.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prof. Heidi Diggelmann was a group leader at the Institut Suisse de Recherche Exp\u00e9rimentale sur le Cancer (ISREC) in Epalinges (1971-1991) before becoming head of the University of Lausanne Institute of Microbiology (1991-2001). She then served as a member of the ISREC Foundation Council from 2001 to 2012. The institute and the foundation are deeply [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2961,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isrec.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isrec.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isrec.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isrec.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isrec.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2965"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.isrec.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3261,"href":"https:\/\/www.isrec.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2965\/revisions\/3261"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isrec.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isrec.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isrec.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isrec.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}