Curriculum Vitae
Richard Henderson
| EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT | |
| 1949-51 | Tweedmouth West County First School |
| 1951-56 | Newcastleton Primary School |
| 1956-61 | Hawick High School |
| 1961-62 | Boroughmuir Secondary School, Edinburgh |
| 1962-66 | B.Sc. Hons (Physics, 1st Class), Edinburgh University |
| 1966-69 | Ph.D. Cambridge University (at MRC Lab of Mol. Biol.) |
| 1969-70 | Research Staff, MRC Lab of Mol. Biol., Cambridge |
| 1970-73 | Postdoctoral Fellow, Yale University |
| 1973- | MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge |
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1973
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Research Staff |
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1979
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Senior Research Staff |
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1984
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Special Appointments Grade Research Staff |
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1986-2000
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Joint Head of Division of Structural Studies |
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1995-1996
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Deputy Director |
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1996-2006
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Director |
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2006-2010
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Member of Scientific Staff |
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2010-
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Group Leader/Emeritus scientist |
| FELLOWSHIPS, AWARDS AND SOCIETIES | |
| 1963-65 | Isaac Newton Undergraduate Scholarship, Edinburgh |
| 1965-66 | Neil Arnott Scholarship in Experimental Physics Undergraduate |
| 1966-69 | MRC Scholarship for training in research methods |
| 1970-73 | Helen Hay Whitney Postdoctoral Fellowship |
| 1978 | William Bate Hardy Prize of Cambridge Philosophical Society |
| 1980 | Ernst-Ruska prize for electron microscopy |
| 1981 | Member of EMBO |
| 1982 | Fellow of Darwin College, Cambridge |
| 1983 | Fellow of Royal Society |
| 1991 | Rosenstiel Award |
| 1993 | Louis Jeantet Award |
| 1998 | Foreign Associate, US National Academy of Sciences |
| 1998 | Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences, London |
| 1999 | Gregori Aminoff prize for Crystallography from Royal Swedish Academy (w. Nigel Unwin) |
| 2003 | Hon. Fellow Corpus Christi College Cambridge |
| 2003 | Hon. Member British Biophysical Society |
| 2005 | Microscopy Society of America, Distinguished Scientist Award (Biol. Sci.) & Hon. Memb. |
| 2008 | Hon. D. Sc. Edinburgh University |
| 2009 | Fellow, Microscopy Society of America |
| 2016 | Alexander Hollaender Award for Biophysics, US NAS |
| 2016 | Copley Medal, Royal Society |
| 2016 | Kaj Linderstrom-Lang Prize and Medal |
| 2017 | Gjonnes medal in electron crystallography, International Union of Crystallography |
| 2017 | Wiley prize in Biomedical Sciences, Wiley Foundation and Rockefeller University |
| 2017 | Hon. Doctorate ETH, Zurich |
| 2017 | Nobel Prize for Chemistry, shared with Jacques Dubochet & Joachim Frank |
| 2017 | Hon. Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry |
| 2018 | Seaborg medal, UCLA |
| 2018 | International Federation of Societies for Microscopy, Eduard Kellenberger Medal for 2018 |
| RESEARCH TOPICS AND INTERESTS | |
| 1966-1970 | Structure and mechanism of α-chymotrypsin |
| 1970-1973 | Nerve and muscle membranes and the interaction of sodium channels with tetrodotoxin and saxitoxin |
| 1973-2001 | Structure of bacteriorhodopsin in purple membrane |
| 1976-1982 | Structure of mitochondrial cytochrome oxidase |
| 1982-1986 | Structure of tubulin from eukaryotic cells |
| 1985-1990 | Other membrane proteins: lactose permease from E. coli; ADP:ATP translocase from mitochondria; neurotransmitter transporters |
| 1989- | Seven helix G-protein-coupled membrane receptors |
| 1996- | Electron cryomicroscopy of macromolecular complexes |
| 2010- | Human voltage-gated sodium channels |
| NAMED LECTURES | |
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1982 |
Henry & Camille Dreyfus Foundation Lecturer at Cornell University |
| 1983 | 11th FEBS Ferdinand Springer Lecturer |
| 1984 | Sir Hans Krebs Lecture at 16th FEBS Meeting, Moscow |
| 1990 | Howard Hughes Lecturer at Yale |
| 1991 | Merck Distinguished Lecturer at Brandeis |
| 1993 | Miller Visiting Professor at Berkeley |
| 1995 | Jesse Beams Lecture at University of Virginia, Charlottesville |
| 1997 | Boehringer Ingelheim Lecture at Mainz |
| 1998 | XXVth Linus Pauling Lecture at Stanford |
| 1998 | Dunham Lectures at Harvard |
| 1998 | Parkville Protein Lecture at Melbourne |
| 2008 | Darwin Trust Lecture at Edinburgh University |
| 2008 | Princesses' Lecture at VCCRI, Sydney |
| 2014 | Paul Sigler Lecture at Yale |
| 2016 | Verna & Marrs McLean Lecture at Baylor |
| 2016 | Murnau Lecture of German Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (GBM) |
| 2016 | Aser Rothstein Lecture, Toronto SickKids |
| 2017 | Rodney Porter Memorial Lecture, Oxford Department of Biochemistry |
| 2017 | Ernest C. Pollard Lecture at Penn State |