Hugh Pelham
Hugh Pelham (born August 26, 1954 ) is a British cell biologist .
Pelham studied at Cambridge University , where he received his PhD in 1978 with Richard Jackson and Tim Hunt (as a Research Fellow at Christ's College). From 1979 to 1981 he was with Don Brown in the Embryology Laboratory of the Carnegie Institution in Baltimore . From 1981 he was a researcher at the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology (MRC LMB) in Cambridge , from 1986 as a permanent member. In 1992 he became head of the cell biology department and in 2006 he became director of the laboratory. In 1987/88 he was a visiting scholar at the University of Zurich .
He researched proteins in the cell membrane, for example their role in the defense against damage to the cell (such as heat shock proteins ), their repair mechanisms, the transport mechanisms to different parts of the cell and their recognition mechanisms.
In 1988 he became a fellow of the Royal Society (whose Croonian Medal he received in 1999), in 1998 of the Academy of Medical Sciences and in 1990 of the Academia Europaea . In 1996 he received the König Faisal Prize and in 1998 the gold medal of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO). In 1991 he received the Louis Jeantet Prize for Medicine. In 1988 he received the Colworth Medal from the Biochemical Society .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Membership directory: Hugh Pelham. Academia Europaea, accessed January 5, 2018 .
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| SURNAME | Pelham, Hugh |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British cell biologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 26, 1954 |