Background
Radman, Miroslav was born on April 30, 1944 in Split, Dalmatia, Croatia. Arrived in France, 1983. Son of Nikola and Vesna (Juric) Radman.
Radman, Miroslav was born on April 30, 1944 in Split, Dalmatia, Croatia. Arrived in France, 1983. Son of Nikola and Vesna (Juric) Radman.
Bachelor of Science, University Zagreb, Croatia, 1966. Master of Science, University Zagreb, Croatia, 1967. Postgraduate research department molecular biology, Free University Brussels, 1967—1969.
Doctor of Philosophy, University Brussels, Belgium, 1969.
He spent the next three years at Harvard University as a postdoctoral researcher From 1973 until 1983 he was Professor of Molecular Biology at the Free University of Brussels and from 1983 until 1998 the Research Director at the French Centre for Scientific Research at the University of Paris 7. He is now a professor of cellular biology at the Faculté de Society Française Médecine Légale - Necker, Université Paris V, Paris, France.
Radman"s specialty is deoxyribonucleic acid repair.
He and Evelyn M. Witkin set basis for the discovery of SOS response. The SOS response hypothesis was put forward by Radman in 1970 in an unpublished letter sent to various researchers which was published in 1974.
With his group he demonstrated the molecular mechanism of speciation by showing that deoxyribonucleic acid mismatch repair mechanism prevents recombination between similar chromosomes which leads to establishment of genetic barriers between species. He clarified the molecular mechanism that allows Deinococcus radiodurans to repair its fatally damaged deoxyribonucleic acid. Radman developed a methodology which enables direct visualization of horizontal gene transfer.
Antoine Lacassagne Award (1979), Grand Prix of the French League Against Cancer for the discovery of the mutagenic SOS system in bacteria
Golden Eureka of Innovation (1990)
Grand Prix Charles-Leopold Mayer of the French Academy of Science for the co-discovery of deoxyribonucleic acid error correction (mismatch repair)
Medal of Honour (1992) awarded by Society for the Encouragement of Progress
Spiridion Brusina Medal (1998) at the 100th anniversary of the Croatian Naturalists" Society
Leopold Griffuel Prize for the contributions to the field of deoxyribonucleic acid repair
Richard Lounsbery Award - Joint Award of the French and United States. national academies of science for the discovery of deoxyribonucleic acid mismatch repair as genetic barrier between related species
Science Award (2000) from the “United States. Environmental Mutagen Society” for "far-reaching research contributions to understanding the profound consequences of mutation and recombination, in global genomic responses, deoxyribonucleic acid repair, cancer and evolution"
Katzir Katchalsky Honorary Lecturer (2000), Weizmann Institute, Israel
Grand Prix de l"Institut national de la santé et de la recherche médicale (2003) awarded by the French Institute of Health and Medical Research
Leonardo Award (2004) for creativity in scientific research
Federation of European Microbiological Societies-Lwoff Award (2011) for his research of deoxyribonucleic acid repair mechanism in Deinococcus radiodurans
Fellow of French Academy of Sciences.
Active Pugwash Peace Movement, Zagreb, 1967. Member American Association for the Advancement of Science, New York Academy of Sciences, Society Pour L'Encouragement and Progress (Platinum medal 1992), Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, European Academy, French Academy Sciences (full member), American Environmental Mutagen Society, French Genetics Society (member scientific council), European Molecular Biology Organization, Commission of European Communities. Scientific Panel Committee for Life Sciences, National Coordinator Genome Program, Genetic Instabilities Associated with Repeated DNA Sequences, 1994.
Married Birgit Schiedung, August 30, 1974 (divorced 1984). Children: Mikula, Ljuba. Married Danica Popovic, November 27, 1985.
1 child, Maria.