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MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit

 

Education

1969  D. Phil in Biochemistry, St. Catherine’s College, University of Oxford    
1965 B. A. in Chemistry, Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford
1953-1960  Rastrick Grammar School, Brighouse, W. Yorkshire

Professional Career

1969-1971 Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Wisconsin, Madison, U. S. A.
1969-1971 Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Wisconsin, Madison, U. S. A.
1969-1971  Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Wisconsin, Madison, U. S. A.
1971-1972 NATO Fellow, CNRS, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
1972-1974 EMBO Fellow, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
1974-1982 Member of the Scientific Staff of The Medical Research Council's Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge
1982-1987   Senior Scientist, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge
1987-1998  Special Appointment, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge.
1998-2013  Founding Director of The MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit (formerly the MRC Dunn Human Nutrition Unit), Cambridge
1998-2013   Group Leader - Proteomics and ATP synthase
2013-present   Director Emeritus and Research Group Leader, The Medical Research Council's Mitochondrial Biology Unit, University of Cambridge

Honours and Awards

1959 A. T. Clay Gold Medal for academic distinction, Rastrick Grammer School  
1983  Member of European Molecular Biology Organisation
1994 Johnson Foundation Prize, University of Pennsylvania Medical School, Philadelphia, U. S.. A.
1995   Fellow of The Royal Society, London
1995  SmithKline-Beecham Visiting Professor to the U. S. A. of The Royal Society of Medicine Foundation
1995 CIBA Medal and Prize of The Biochemic Society, London
1996 The Peter Mitchall Medal of the European Bioenergetics Congress
1997  The Gaetano Quagliariello Prize for Mitochondrial Research from the University of Bari, Italy
1997  Nobel Prize in Chemistry (jointly with P. D. Boyer and J. C. Skou)
1997  Fellow of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge
1998 Member of The Academia Europea
1998 Honorary Doctor of Science, Bradford University
1998  Honorary Member of The Biochemical Society
1998 Honorary Fellow of St Catherine's College, Oxford
1998 Founding Fellow of The Academy of Medical Sciences, London
1998 Honorary Doctor of Science, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina
1998 Honorary Doctor of Science, University of Huddersfield
1999 Knight Bachelor
1999   Foreign Member of The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
1999   Honorary Doctor of Science, University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology
1999 Honorary Doctor of Science, Oxford University
1999  Honorary Doctor of Science, Groningen University, The Netherlands
1999    Honorary Doctor of Science, University of Leeds
2000 Honorary Member of The British Biophysical Society
2000  Millennium Fellow of The Royal Society of Chemistry
2000  The Messel Medal of The Society of Chemistry and Industry
2001  Honorary Professorship, Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China
2002  Honorary Fellowship of The Institute of Biology
2002   Honorary Doctor of Science, Royal Holloway College, University of London
2002  Professor of Molecular Bioenergetics, University of Cambridge
2003 Honorary Doctor of Science, University of Sussex
2003 Foreign Member of L'Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Rome, Italy
2004 Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences, U. S. A.
2004  2003 Royal Society of Chemistry Award for Biomembrane Chemistry
2004  JSPS Award for Eminent Scientists, Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science
2004  Honorary Doctor of Science, University of Liverpool
2006 Honorary Doctor of Science, University of East Anglia
2007 Honorary Doctor of Science and Professor, Moscow State University, Russia
2007   Doctor Honoris Causa, University Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France
2007   Honorary Doctor of Science, Toyo University, Kawagoe, Japan
2009 Fellow of the Science Museum, London
2009   Honorary Fellow, Society of Biology, London
2010  The Lee Kong Chian Distinguished Professor, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
2010  The Ahmed Zewail Medal, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, U. S. A.
2011  The Skou Award, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
2011 The Keilin Memorial Medal and Lecture of the Biochemical Society, UK
2011 The keys to the city of Bari, Italy
2011 The Gold Seal of the University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy
2012  The Copley Medal of The Royal Society, London, UK
2012   Honorary Gentle Scientist of the Mitochondrial Physiology Society, Austria
2013 Visiting Professor, Division of Molecular Biosciences, Department of Life Sciences, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Imperial College London  
2013 Honorary Fellow of The Royal Society of New Zealand
2013  Honorary Fellow of The Academy of Medical Sciences, London, UK
2015  Honorary Doctor of Science, KIIT University, Bhubaneswar, India
2019  Honorary Fellow, Cambridge Philosophical Society
2021 Honorary Doctor of Science, University of Cambridge