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Sir Alan Roy FERSHT FRS FMedSci - Curriculum
Vitae
E-mail: arf25@cam.ac.uk, alan@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk
Address: Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, CB2 1TA
BORN: 21st April 1943, Hackney, London.
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EDUCATION |
| 1955-62 |
Sir George Monoux GS, Walthamstow, London |
| 1962-65 |
Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge |
| 1964 |
Natural Science Tripos Pt I Class I |
| 1965 |
Natural Science Tripos Pt II Class I |
| 1965-68 |
Research student, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge |
| 1968 |
Ph.D. Department of Organic Chemistry, Cambridge (under A.J. Kirby) |
| 1968-69 |
Postdoctoral Fellow, Brandeis University (W. P. Jencks) |
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APPOINTMENTS |
| 1969-77 |
Group Leader, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge |
| 1978-89 |
Wolfson Research Professor of the Royal Society |
| 1978-88 |
Professor of Biological Chemistry, London University (Imperial College) |
| 1978-79 |
Visiting Professor, Stanford University Biochemistry Department |
| 1988-2010 |
Herchel Smith Professor of Organic Chemistry, Cambridge University |
| 1988- |
Professorial/Life Fellow, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge |
| 1988-2010 |
Director, MRC Unit for Protein Function and Design |
| 1990-2010 |
Director, MRC Centre for Protein Engineering |
| 2010-2017 |
Group Leader MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology |
| 2010- |
Emeritus Staff, Dept of Chemistry, Cambridge University |
| 2012- |
Master, Gonville and Caius College |
| 2018- |
Emeritus member MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology |
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SCHOLARSHIPS AND FELLOWSHIPS |
| 1964-65 |
Exhibition, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge |
| 1965-68 |
Dunlop Research Studentship, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge |
| 1968-72 |
Junior Research Fellowship, Jesus College, Cambridge |
| 1978-79 |
Eleanor Roosevelt Fellowship, IUCC |
| 1996-98 |
Fogarty International Scholar-in-Residence, NIH, Bethesda |
| 2009 |
Vallee Visiting Professor, Harvard Medical School. |
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MEMBERSHIP OF ACADEMIES |
| 1980 |
Member of EMBO (European Molecular Biology Organization) |
| 1983 |
Fellow of the Royal Society |
| 1988 |
Honorary Foreign Member of American Academy of Arts and Sciences |
| 1989 |
Member Academia Europaea |
| 1993 |
Foreign Associate National Academy of Sciences (USA) |
| 2007 |
Fellow of Academy of Medical Sciences |
| 2008 |
Foreign Member American Philosophical Society |
| 2013 |
Foreign member of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei |
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HONORARY DEGREES |
| 1999 |
Doctor of Philosophy honoris causa, University of Uppsala |
| 1999 |
Doctor honoris causa, Free University of Brussels |
| 2004 |
Doctor of Philosophy honoris causa, Weizmann Institute |
| 2004 |
Fellowship of Imperial College |
| 2006 |
Doctor of Philosophy honoris causa, Hebrew University |
| 2008 |
Doctor of Philosophy honoris causa, Aarhus University |
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MISCELLANEOUS HONORARY AWARDS |
| 2002 |
Honorary Membership Japanese Biochemical Society |
| 2003 |
Knight Bachelor (for contributions to protein science) |
| 2006 |
Honorary Professor Sichuan University |
| 2006 |
Honorary Fellow Manchester Interdisciplinary Biocentre |
| 2008 |
Honorary Professor Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica |
| 2010 |
Honorary Professor Qingdao University |
| 2010 |
Honorary Membership British Biophysical Society |
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MEDALS FROM THE ROYAL SOCIETY |
| 1991 |
Gabor Medal (Molecular Biology and Biotechnology) |
| 1998 |
Davy Medal (Chemistry) |
| 2008 |
Royal Medal (Physical sciences) |
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OTHER PRIZES AND MEDALS |
| 1980 |
FEBS Anniversary Prize. |
| 1986 |
Novo Biotechnology Award (The 2nd triennial) |
| 1986 |
Charmian Medal of the Royal Society of Chemistry (for Enzyme Chemistry) |
| 1992 |
Max Tishler Lecture and Prize, Harvard (Chemistry) |
| 1993 |
Datta Lecture and Medal, FEBS, Stockholm 1993 |
| 1993 |
Jubilee Lecture and the Harden Medal of the Biochemical Society |
| 1996 |
Feldberg Foundation Prize |
| 1997 |
Distinguished Service Award, Miami Nature Biotechnology Winter Symposium |
| 1999 |
Anfinsen Award of the Protein Society |
| 1999 |
Laureate of the "Chaire Bruylants", Louvain |
| 1999 |
Natural Products Award of the Royal Society of Chemistry |
| 2001 |
Stein and Moore Award of the Protein Society |
| 2005 |
Bader Award of the American Chemical Society (for Bio-organic Chemistry) |
| 2005 |
Linderstrøm-Lang Prize and Medal (Denmark) |
| 2008 |
Bijvoet Medal, Utrecht University |
| 2008 |
G.N. Lewis Medal, Berkeley |
| 2009 |
Wilhelm Exner Medal (Austria) |
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NAMED LECTURES |
| 1984 |
Smith, Kline and French Lecture, Berkeley |
| 1984 |
Drummond Lecture, Queen Mary College |
| 1984 |
Edsall Lecture, Harvard |
| 1986 |
B.R. Baker Memorial Lecture, UC Santa Barbara |
| 1986 |
Distinguished Lecture, Rutgers |
| 1986 |
Frank Mathers Lecture, University of Indiana |
| 1987 |
Cornell Biotechnology Program Lecturer |
| 1988/89 |
FEBS Ferdinand Springer Lecture |
| 1989 |
Burton Lecture, Kings College, London |
| 1990 |
Calvin Lecture, Berkeley |
| 1990 |
Walker Memorial Lecture, Edinburgh |
| 1991 |
Foster Memorial Lecture, Purdue |
| 1993 |
E. Gordon Young Memorial Lecture, Chemical Institute of Canada |
| 1994 |
Arne Brändström Lecture, Chalmers University, Gothenburg |
| 1994 |
Leo H. Sternbach Lecture, Yale University |
| 1994 |
Sunner Memorial Lecture, Lund University |
| 1995 |
Heatley Lecturer, Oxford University |
| 1995 |
Chan Lecture, Berkeley |
| 1995 |
Rudin Lecture, Columbia, NY |
| 1995 |
August Wilhelm von Hofmann Lectures, German Chemical Society |
| 1996 |
Norris Lecture, University of Birmingham |
| 1996 |
Roger Herriott Lecture, Johns Hopkins University |
| 1996 |
Fritz Lipmann Lecture, German Biological Chemical Society |
| 1996 |
Merck Frosst Lecture, Montreal |
| 1997 |
Honorary Lecture, University of Florida |
| 1997 |
Honorary Lecture, University of Basel |
| 1997 |
Wellcome Visiting Professorship in Basic Medical Sciences 1997-98, University of California at San Francisco |
| 1998 |
Hong Kong Advanced Chemicals Limited (ACL) Distinguished Lecture Series in Chemistry |
| 1998 |
Dewey-Kelley International Award Lectureship, University of Nebraska |
| 1998 |
Kolthoff Lecture, University of Minnesota |
| 1998 |
Max Gruber Lecture, Groningen |
| 1999 |
Upper Rhine Lecture |
| 1999 |
NIH Director’s Lecture |
| 2002 |
Stauffer Lecture, Stanford |
| 2003 |
W.H. Stein Lecture, Rockefeller University |
| 2005 |
Walker Ames Lecture, Seattle University |
| 2005 |
Albert Neuberger Memorial Lecture, Jerusalem |
| 2006 |
Robert Robinson Memorial Lecture, Oxford |
| 2006 |
Drummond Lecture, Queen Mary College |
| 2006 |
Kendrew Lecture, Weizmann Institute |
| 2007 |
Henry Kamin Lecture, Duke University |
| 2008 |
Marion Koshland Lecture, Berkeley |
| 2008 |
G. N. Lewis Lecture, Berkeley |
| 2009 |
Sumner Lecture, Cornell |
| 2009 |
Manchot Professorship, Munich |
| 2011 |
Sigman Memorial Lecture, UCLA |
| 2011 |
CSIR (Pretoria) President's Lecture |
| 2012 |
Verna and Marrs McLean Lecture, Baylor |
| 2013 |
Sir John Cornforth Lecture, Sussex |
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SENIOR EDITORIAL WORK |
| Proceedings of the National Academy Sciences (USA) (Associate Editor) |
| Protein Engineering Design and Selection (Co-Founder and Senior Editor) |
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MISCELLANEOUS |
| Essex County Junior Chess Champion, 1961 |
| President of Cambridge University Chess Club, 1964-65 |
| Half-Blue (Chess), 1965 |
| Freeman of the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers (2005) |
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