- Ernest Feytmans
Prof. Ernest Feytmans (born
24 June 1943 inBrussels ,Belgium ) is a biologist, director of theSwiss Institute of Bioinformatics between 2001 and September 2007.Ernest Feytmans graduated in biology (in 1968) and statistics (in 1973) at the
Catholic University of Leuven inBelgium , and obtained aPhD in 1973 following a thesis in Cell Biology with Jacques Berthet and Christian de Duve. After a postdoctoral fellowship atRockefeller University with Christian de Duve, he became professor at the Catholic University of Santiago, inChile . In 1975, he became full professor at Namur University, Belgium, where he was head of the department of biology, and then Chancellor from 1982 to 1987 and Dean of the faculty of sciences between 1991 and 1997.In 1997, he became Dean of the Faculty of Medical Sciences at the
University of the West Indies and, in 2001, director of the Swiss Institute for Bioinformatics. In 2007, he became honorary director of the institute.In 1977, he was selected with four other Belgian candidates for European astronaut kit but was not selected to the detachment.
External links
* [http://www.isb-sib.ch/institute/management.htm Management of the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics]
* [http://www.spacefacts.de/bios/candidates/english/feytmans_ernest.htm Biographies of Astronaut and Cosmonaut Candidates] on [http://www.spacefacts.de/ Space Facts] .
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