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Professor Kim Nasmyth awarded the 2021 Centenary Award by Biochemical Society

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Kim, who is currently the Whitley Chair at the Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford and a fellow of Trinity College, has made hugely valuable contributions to the life sciences. He revealed the sophisticated mechanism that mediates the perilous separation of duplicated chromosomes during cell division and thereby prevents genetic diseases such as cancer. After his PhD and a fellowship at Cold Spring Harbor, he was a member of staff at the LMB. The Biochemical Society Centenary Award is awarded annually to a biochemist of distinction from any part of the world. More…