Personal Details |
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| Correspondence address: | Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology Hills Road Cambridge CB2 2QH, UK |
| E-mail: | msb@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk |
| Place and Date of Birth: | Cambridge, England, January 8th 1940 |
| Family: | Married (to Barbara Pearse)
Daughter - Nicola Bretscher (born 15th August 1978) Head of Mathematics, Blackheath School, London, UK. Son - Andrew Jonathan Bretscher (born 15th September 1981) PhD student, Cambridge University, UK. |
| Citizenship: | British and Swiss |
| Recreations: | Walking, creating wild environments, early English portraits and furniture |
Academic Record |
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| 1951-58: | Abingdon School, Berkshire |
| 1958-61: | Major Scholar, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge |
| 1961: | B.A. degree in Chemistry (1st class) College prize in Chemistry. |
| 1961-64: | Research Student with Dr. S. Brenner at MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge; Scholar of the Worshipful Company of Salters, London and holder of a Research Studentship at Gonville and Caius College |
| 1964-70: | Research Fellow, Gonville and Caius College and MA, PhD (Cambridge University) |
| 1964-65: | Postdoctoral Fellow with Dr. Paul Berg at Stanford University, Fulbright Scholar and Jane Coffin Childs Fellow |
| 1965 to present: | Member of Scientific Staff, Cell Biology Division, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge; (1986-95, Head of Division) |
| 1973: | Member of European Molecular Biology Organisation |
| 1974-75: | Visiting Professor, Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Harvard University |
| 1979: | Friedrich-Miescher Prize, awarded by the Swiss Biochemical Society |
| 1984-85: | Eleanor Roosevelt American Cancer Society Fellow. Visiting Professor, Stanford University |
| 1985: | Fellow of the Royal Society |
| 1984: | Head of the Cell Biology Division, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology,
Cambridge (resigned 1995) |
| 2005: |
Emeritus scientist, Cell Biology Division, MRC
Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge. |