1998 Karl Meyer Award Winner  Harry Schachter , MD, PhD, FRSCResearch Institute Senior Scientist Emeritus Molecular Structure & Function University of Toronto Professor Emeritus Dept. of Biochemistry University Education: 1955 - BA (Physiology and Biochemistry), University of Toronto 1959 - MD, University of Toronto 1959 - 1960 Rotating General Internship, Toronto General Hospital 1964 - PhD (Biochemistry), University of Toronto (Supervisor, Gordon DIXON) Staff Appointments: Department of Biochemistry, University of Toronto: 1964 - 1965, Assistant Professor 1965 - 1972, Associate Professor 1972 - 1998, Professor 1984 - 1989, Chairman 1998 - present, Emeritus Professor Division of Structural Biology and Biochemistry, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto: 1976 - 1989, Head 1976 - 1998, Senior Scientist 1998 - present, Emeritus Scientist Research Interests: Glycosyltransferases Glycoprotein synthesis Developmental biology Caenorhabditis elegans Drosophila melanogaster Functional glycoproteomics Achievements: 2001 - The Pan-American Association for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (PABMB) Plenary Lecturer Award, ASBMB Annual Meeting, Orlando, Florida, April 3, 2001. 2000 - Elected to the Johns Hopkins University Society of Scholars, Baltimore MD 1998 - Karl Meyer Award of the Society for Glycobiology. 1998 - Honorary degree, Universität der Bodenkultur (BOKU), Vienna, Austria. 1989,1990, 1992 - Visiting Professor, Universitat der Bodenkultur, Vienna, Austria. 1995 - Elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada 1989 - Sandoz Lecture, Clinical Research Society of Toronto. 1989 - Visiting Professor, Donders Chair, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands. 1985 - Boehringer-Mannheim Prize in Biochemistry 1964 - Starr Medal 1966 - 1968 - National Cystic Fibrosis Research Foundation Fellow 1960 - 1964 - Medical Research Council Post-doctoral Fellow 1959 - Cody Silver Medal |
