Charles Weissmann
…disease, and "mad cow disease". Charles Weissmann was born in 1931 in Budapest, and grew up between Zurich and Rio de Janeiro. Weissmann went to University of Zurich and obtained his MD in 1956 and Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry in 1961. In 1978, Weissmann co-founded the biotech company Biogen in Geneva. Biogen is…