Kim Nasmyth#
| Membership Number: | 1428 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CELL & DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 1993 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.bioch.ox.ac.uk/aspsite/index.asp?pageid=591 |
Present and Previous Positions
- Whitley Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Oxford
- Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford
- Director of the Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP) in Vienna, Austria
Fields of Scholarship
- Molecular biology
- Codiscoverer of cohesin, a protein complex crucial for faithful chromosome segregation during cell division
Honours and Awards
- 1985 Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization
- 1988 Fellow of the Royal Society
- 1993 Member of the Academia Europaea
- 1997 Louis-Jeantet-Preis
- 1999 Wittgenstein-Preis
- 1999 Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 2007 Gairdner Foundation International Award
- 2018 2018 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences
