Wilhelm Gruissem
Wilhelm Gruissem was Professor of Plant Biotechnology at ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) from 2000 to 2022 and he is Professor and Yushan Scholar at National Chung Hsing University in Taiwan since 2017. Before moving to Zurich, he was Professor of Plant Biology at the University of California at Berkeley from 1983-2000. He was Chair of the Department at UC Berkeley from 1993-1998 and Director of a collaborative research program with Novartis from 1998-2000. At ETH, he built the Functional Genomics Center Zurich that he led as Director from 2001 to 2017. In 2008 he founded the company Nebion, which was acquired by Immunai in 2021. From 2006 to 2010 he was President of the European Plant Science Organization (EPSO) and in 2012 he was elected Chair and President of the Global Plant Council that he served until 2015. In addition to his research on plant systems biology, he directs a biotechnology program on trait improvement in cassava, rice and wheat. Prof. Gruissem is an elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences and the American Society of Plant Biologists, he was Editor-in Chief of Plant Molecular Biology from 2001 until 2019, and he is a Co-Editor of the acclaimed book ‘Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of Plants’. He has been consultant and advisor to many companies, governments, academic research institutions and international organizations. He has published over 300 research articles in leading journals and received several awards, including prizes for his trait improvement work in cassava.
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