Mark S. Bretscher
Curriculum Vitae
Personal Details
- Date of Birth: 8 January 1940
- Family: Married (to Barbara Pearse); one daughter (Nicola) and one son (Andrew)
- Citizenship: British and Swiss
- Recreations: Walking, creating wild environments, early English portraits and furniture
Academic Record
- 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 Sydney 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
- 1965-2005: 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
- 1986: Head of the Cell Biology Division, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge (resigned 1995)
- 2005-2013: Emeritus scientist, Cell Biology Division, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge