Christopher M. Dobson#
Sadly, this member passed away. | |
Membership Number: | 2997 |
Membership type: | ORDINARY |
Section: | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
Elected: | 2011 |
Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
Homepage(s): | http://www.ch.cam.ac.uk/person/cmd44 |
Christopher M. Dobson passed away September 8, 2019.
Present and Previous Positions
- since 2007 Master of St John’s College, University of Cambridge
- since 2001 John Humphrey Plummer Professor of Chemical and Structural Biology, University of Cambridge
- 1998 - 2001 Director, Oxford Centre for Molecular Sciences
- 1996 - 2001 Professor of Chemistry, University of Oxford
- 1995 - 1996 Reader (Aldrichian Praelector) in Chemistry, University of Oxford
- 1980 - 1995 University Lecturer in Chemistry, University of Oxford
- 1977 - 1980 Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Harvard University, Visiting Scientist, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- 1975 - 1977 Research Fellow in Chemistry, University of Oxford
Fields of Scholarship
- Structures and properties of biological molecules
- Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience
- Clinical and Veterinary Neuroscience
Honours and Awards
- 1983 Corday Morgan Medal and Prize, The Royal Society of Chemistry
- 1992 Howard Hughes International Research Scholar
- 1996 Brunauer Award, American Ceramic Society
- 1996 Fellow of The Royal Society
- 1997 Dewey and Kelly Award, University of Nebraska
- 1998 National Lecturer, American Biophysical Society
- 1999 Member of the European Molecular Biology Organisation
- 1999 Interdisciplinary Award, The Royal Society of Chemistry
- 2001 President of the Protein Society
- 2001 Doctor Honoris Causa, University of Leuven, Belgium
- 2001 Presidential Visiting Scholar, University of California San Francisco
- 2002 Bijvoet Medal, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands
- 2002 Silver Medal, Italian Society of Biochemistry
- 2003 Royal Society Bakerian Lecturer
- 2003 Stein and Moore Award, The Protein Society
- 2004 Honorary Member, National Magnetic Resonance Society of India
- 2005 Fellow of The Academy of Medical Sciences
- 2005 Honorary Doctor of Medicine, Umea University, Sweden
- 2005 Davy Medal, The Royal Society
- 2006 Hans Neurath Award, The Protein Society
- 2006 Honorary Doctor of Medicine, University of Florence, Italy
- 2007 Doctor Honoris Causa, University of Liège, Belgium
- 2007 Sammet Guest Professor, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt
- 2007 Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 2008 Fellow of the International Society of Magnetic Resonance
- 2008 Honorary Fellow, Linacre College, University of Oxford
- 2008 Honorary Fellow, Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford
- 2009 Honorary Fellow, Merton College, University of Oxford
- 2009 Honorary Fellow, Keble College, University of Oxford
- 2009 Royal Medal, The Royal Society
- 2010 Honorary Fellow of the Chemical Council of India
- 2010 Khorana Award, The Royal Society of Chemistry
- 2011 Member of the Academia Europaea
- 2012 Honorary Fellow of the Indian Biophysical Society
- 2012 Honorary Doctor of Science, King’s College London
- 2013 Honorary Fellow, Trinity College Dublin
- 2013 Foreign Associate of the US National Academy of Sciences
- 2014 Vallee Foundation Visiting Professor
- 2014 Honorary Fellow, Darwin College, University of Cambridge
- 2014 Heineken Prize for Biophysics and Biochemistry, The Royal Netherlands Academy
- 2014 Feltrinelli International Prize for Medicine, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei