Hugh Pelham#
Membership Number: | 966 |
Membership type: | ORDINARY |
Section: | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
Elected: | 1991 |
Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2019 Professor Emeritus
- Since 2006 Director, MRC LMB
- 1996 - 2006 Deputy Director, MRC LMB
- 1992 - 2006 Head, Division of Cell Biology, MRC LMB
- since 1981 Staff member, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge (tenured from 1986)
- 1979 - 1981 Postdoctoral fellow with Dr Don Brown, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Dept. of Embryology, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
- 1978 Ph.D. degree, University of Cambridge
Fields of Scholarship
- Cell biology
- Membrane traffic
- Ubiquitin
Honours and Awards
- 1999 Royal Society Croonian Lecture and medal
- 1996 The King Faisal International Prize for Science
- 1991 Louis Jeantet Prize for Medicine
- 1989 EMBO gold medal
- 1988 Colworth medal of the Biochemical Society
- 1998 Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences
- 1991 Fellow of the Academia Europaea
- 1988 Fellow of the Royal Society
- 1985 Member of the European Molecular Biology Organisation