Prof. Dr. Ari Helenius

Ari Helenius has been full Professor of Biochemistry at the ETH Zurich since 1 November 1997. After the retirement of Prof. Ari Helenius, the research laboratory is closed.

No new group members are recruited. As an emeritus professor, he continues to be active in the fields of virus/host interactions and membrane traffic, and protein folding.

Prof. Helenius was born on September 3,1944 in Oulu, Finland and studied biochemistry at the University of Helsinki. He received his doctorate under Professor Kai Simons and was awarded the Komppa Prize for the best dissertation on chemistry in Finland in 1973. After six years as staff scientist at the European Laboratory for Molecular Biology (EMBL) in Heidelberg, he was appointed Associate Professor and in 1983 Full Professor at the Department of Cell Biology at Yale University, New Haven, CT. From 1992 to 1997 he was chairman of this department.