Gabriel Waksman#
| Membership Number: | 3903 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2014 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.ismb.lon.ac.uk/gabriel-waksman/homepage.htm |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2009 Courtauld Professor of Biochemistry, Director of ISMB, Head of Department UCL and Birkbeck
- 2006 Professor of Structural and Molecular Biology, Director of ISMB, Head of Department UCL and Birkbeck
- 2003 Professor of Structural and Molecular Biology, Director of ISMB
- 2002 Professor of Structural and Molecular Biology
- 2002-2003 P. Roy and Diana Vagelos Professor of Biochemistry, Washington University School of Medicine, Saint Louis (USA)
- 2001-2002 Alumni Endowed Professor of Biochemistry, Washington University School of Medicine, Saint Louis (USA)
- 2000-2001 Professor of Biochemistry, Washington University School of Medicine, Saint Louis (USA)
- 1998-2000 Associate Professor of Biochemistry, Washington University School of Medicine, Saint Louis (USA)
- 1993-1998 Assistant Professor of Biochemistry, Washington University School of Medicine, Saint Louis (USA)
Fields of Scholarship
- Bacterial secretion
- Structural biology
- Gram-negative bacteria
- Chaperone usher pathway
- Pilus biogenesis
- Molecular biology
- Type IV secretion systems
Honours and Awards
- 2003 Royal Society – Wolfson Merit Award
- 2007 Elected Member of EMBO
- 2008 Elected Fellow of the UK Academy of Medical Sciences (FMedSci)
- 2012 Elected Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS)
- 2013 Wellcome Trust Senior Investigator
- 2013 ERC Advanced Investigator award
- Elected Member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
