Alan Fersht#
| Membership Number: | 479 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CHEMICAL SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 1989 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.ch.cam.ac.uk/staff/arf.html |
Present and Previous Positions
- 1990 Director, MRC Centre for Protein Engineering
- 1988 Director, MRC Unit for Protein Function and Design
- 1988 Herchel Smith Professor of Organic Chemistry, Cambridge University
- 1978 - 1989 Wolfson Research Professor of the Royal Society, Imperial College
- 1969 - 1977 Scientific Staff, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge
Fields of Scholarship
- Chemistry
- Biophysics
- Molecular biology
- Structural biology
- Proteins
- Folding
- Misfolding
- Disease
- Cancer
- Kinetics
Honours and Awards
- Membership of Academies
- 1980 Member of EMBO
- 1983 Fellow of the Royal Society
- 1988 Honorary Foreign Member of American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 1989 Member Academia Europaea
- 1993 Foreign Associate National Academy of Sciences (USA)
- 2007 Fellow of Academy of Medical Sciences
- 2008 Member American Philosophical Society
- Honorary Degrees
- 1999 Doctor of Philosophy honoris causa, University of Uppsala
- 1999 Doctor honoris causa, Free University of Brussels
- 2004 Doctor of Philosophy honoris causa, Weizmann Institute
- 2004 Fellowship of Imperial College
- 2006 Doctor of Philosophy honoris causa, Hebrew University
- 2008 Doctor of Philosophy honoris causa, Aarhus University
- Awards, Prizes and Medals
- 1980 FEBS Anniversary Prize.
- 1986 Novo Biotechnology Award (The 2nd triennial)
- 1986 Charmian Medal of the Royal Society of Chemistry (for Enzyme Chemistry)
- 1991 Gabor Medal of the Royal Society (for Molecular Biology and Biotechnology)
- 1992 Max Tishler Lecture and Prize, Harvard (Chemistry)
- 1993 Datta Lecture and Medal, FEBS, Stockholm 1993
- 1993 Jubilee Lecture and the Harden Medal of the Biochemical Society
- 1996 Feldberg Foundation Prize
- 1997 Distinguished Service Award, Miami Nature Biotechnology Winter Symposium
- 1998 Davy Medal of the Royal Society (for Chemistry)
- 1999 Anfinsen Award of the Protein Society
- 1999 Laureate of the "Chaire Bruylants", Louvain
- 1999 Natural Products Award of the Royal Society of Chemistry
- 2001 Stein and Moore Award of the Protein Society
- 2003 Knight Bachelor
- 2005 Bader Award of the American Chemical Society (for Bio-organic Chemistry)
- 2005 Linderstrøm-Lang Prize and Medal (Denmark)
- 2008 Bijvoet Medal, Utrecht University
- 2008 G.N. Lewis Medal, Berkeley
- 2008 Royal Medal of the Royal Society
- 2009 Wilhelm Exner Medal (Austria)
- 2020 Copley Medal (The Royal Society)
