Awards & Winners

Jan Vil?ek

Date of Birth 17-June-1933
Place of Birth Bratislava
(Slovakia)
Nationality
Profession Scientist
Jan T. Vilček M.D., Ph.D. is a biomedical scientist, educator, inventor and philanthropist. He is currently a professor in the Department of Microbiology at the New York University School of Medicine and President of The Vilcek Foundation. Vilček, a native of Bratislava, Slovakia, received his M.D. degree from Comenius University Medical School, Bratislava, Czechoslovakia in 1957; and his Ph.D. in Virology from the Institute of Virology, Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Czechoslovakia in 1962. In 1964, Jan Vilček, with his wife Marica, defected from Communist Czechoslovakia during a three-day visit to Vienna. In 1965, the Vilčeks immigrated to the United States, and have since lived in New York City. Vilček devoted his scientific career to studies of soluble mediators that regulate the immune system

Awards by Jan Vil?ek

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2011


National Medal of Technology and Innovation
(For pioneering work on interferons and key contributions to the development of therapeutic monoclonal antibodies.)