Laurence Harris Pearl#
| Membership Number: | 3206 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2012 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.sussex.ac.uk/lifesci/pearllab |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2009 Professor of Structural Biology and Head of School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, UK
- 1999 - 2009 Professor of Protein Crystallography and Section Chairman, Institute of Cancer Research, UK
- 1996 - 1999 Professor of Structural Biology, University College London, UK
- 1994 - 1996 Reader in Crystallography, University College London, UK
- 1989 - 1994 Lecturer in Biochemistry, University College London, UK
- 1988 - 1989 MRC Research Fellow, Birkbeck College, UK
- 1985 - 1988 CRC Research Fellow, Institute of Cancer Research, UK
- 1982 - 1985 SERC Postdoctoral Assistant, Birkbeck College, UK
Fields of Scholarship
- Biochemistry
- DNA damage repair
- Signal transduction
- Molecular chaperones
- Structural biology
- Structure-based drug discovery
Honours and Awards
- 2005 Elected Member of European Molecular Biology Organisation (EMBO)
- 2007 Elected Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences - FMedSci
- 2007 As CSO of Domainex – Winner of DTI UK Bio-entrepreneurial Company of the Year (Innovation in Enabling Biotechnology)
- 2008 Elected Fellow of the Royal Society - FRS
- 2011 Wellcome Trust Senior Investigator (Inaugral)
- 2013 Cancer Research UK Translational Cancer Research Prize
