Lelio Orci
Lelio Orci (born 1937) is an Italian scientist in the field of endocrinology and diabetes and emeritus professor in the Department of Morphology at the University of Geneva Medical School.[1]
Orci was born in 1937 in San Giovanni Incarico, Italy. He received his BA in 1958. He studied medicine at the University of Rome, graduating in 1964. In 1966, he moved to the University of Geneva where he worked ever since.[2] He was chair of the Department of Morphology from 1976 to 2002, and retired in 2004.
Orci is known for his work in electron microscopy. In 1984, he began collaborating with James Rothman on the work in vesicle trafficing that eventually earned Rothman, Randy Schekman, and Thomas C. Südhof the Nobel Prize.[3]
Awards
- 1973 – Minkowski Award (European Association for the Study of Diabetes)
- 1977 – Nessim Habif Prize
- 1979 – Fernand Tissot Prize
- 1978 – Mack-Foster Award (European Society for Clinical Investigation)
- 1978 – David Rumbough Award (American Juvenile Diabetes Foundation)
- 1981 – Banting Medal (American Diabetes Association)
- 1983 – Dale Medal (Society for Endocrinology)
- 1985 : King Faisal International Prize for Medicine
- 1986 : Otto Naegeli Prize for Medicine
- 1986 : Special Golgi Award (European Association for the Study of Diabetes)
- 1987 – Morgagni Medal (G.B. Morgagni International Prizes)
- 1991 : Elliot P. Joslin Award (Massachusetts Affiliate of the American Diabetes Association)
- 1998 : Member of the Senate of the Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences
- 1998 : Foreign Member of National Academy of Sciences
- 1999 : Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
- 2000 : Lucien Dautrebande Triennial Prize (The Physiopathology Foundation)[4]
- 2007 – Leon Lombarti Prize
- Order of Commander of Honor by the Italian Government[5]
The Lelio Orci Award for advances in cell biology was established in 2015.[6]
References
- ^ http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/pub/all-cells-lead-to-rome
- ^ http://joe.endocrinology-journals.org/content/102/1/NP.full.pdf
- ^ https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/2013/rothman-lecture.pdf
- ^ http://www.ae-info.org/ae/Member/Orci_Lelio/CV
- ^ http://kfip.org/professor-lelio-orci/
- ^ https://actu.epfl.ch/news/the-first-lelio-orci-award-will-be-presented-to-gi/