Background
Jerala was born in Jesenice, a town in then People"s Republic of Slovenia, FPR Yugoslavia.
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Roman Jerala
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He completed his undergraduate studies and received a Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Ljubljana.
Career
He was a postdoc at University of Virginia, Charlottesville, United States of America, in academic year 1994/1995. He is now employed at the National Institute of Chemistry in Ljubljana, Slovenia, as the head of its Laboratory of Biotechnology and a full professor at the Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical technology, University of Ljubljana. Since 2009, he is synthetic biology project director at the Centre of Excellence EN-Forum Interconnectie en Speciale Toegang.
Genetically modified Escherichia coli bacteria were drafted in to synthesize the protein.
Dek Woolfson, a biochemist from Centre for Nanoscience and Quantum Information, United Kingdom, described this kind of engineering with the following words:
Jerala"s team is trying to double the size of the coiled coils in the tetrahedron, and thinking about making other shapes, such as prisms and bipyramids.
In 2011, Jerala was interviewed in Evening Guest talk show, aired by Slovenian National television and hosted by Sandi Čolnik, one of the most recognizable Slovenian television personalities.
Achievements
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1991 Boris Kidrič Slovenian state award for science 2006 Grand Prize for the best project at the iGEM competition at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (team leader) 2007 finalist, Gold Medal, Best project in Health and Medicine at the iGEM competition at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (team leader) 2007 Prometheus of Science award by the Slovenian Science Foundation 2008 Grand prize winner at iGEM competition at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Gold Medal, Best project in Health and Medicine (team leader) 2009 Pregl award by the National institute of chemistry for outstanding scientific achievements 2009 Zois award for outstanding scientific achievements (the highest national scientific award) 2010 Grand prize winner at iGEM competition at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Best project in New Application Area, Best Engineered BioBrick (team leader).
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Slovenia
Awards
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1991 Boris Kidrič Slovenian state award for science 2006 Grand Prize for the best project at the iGEM competition at MIT (team leader) 2007 finalist, Gold Medal, Best project in Health and Medicine at the iGEM competition at MIT (team leader) 2007 Prometheus of Science award by the Slovenian Science Foundation 2008 Grand prize winner at iGEM competition at MIT, Gold Medal, Best project in Health and Medicine (team leader) 2009 Pregl award by the National institute of chemistry for outstanding scientific achievements 2009 Zois award for outstanding scientific achievements (the highest national scientific award) 2010 Grand prize winner at iGEM competition at MIT, Best project in New Application Area, Best Engineered BioBrick (team leader)1991 Boris Kidrič Slovenian state award for science 2006 Grand Prize for the best project at the iGEM competition at MIT (team leader) 2007 finalist, Gold Medal, Best project in Health and Medicine at the iGEM competition at MIT (team leader) 2007 Prometheus of Science award by the Slovenian Science Foundation 2008 Grand prize winner at iGEM competition at MIT, Gold Medal, Best project in Health and Medicine (team leader) 2009 Pregl award by the National institute of chemistry for outstanding scientific achievements 2009 Zois award for outstanding scientific achievements (the highest national scientific award) 2010 Grand prize winner at iGEM competition at MIT, Best project in New Application Area, Best Engineered BioBrick (team leader)