John Walker#
| Membership Number: | 1825 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 1998 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.mrc-mbu.cam.ac.uk |
Present and Previous Positions
- 1998 Director of The MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit (formerly the MRC Dunn Human Nutrition Unit), Cambridge
- 1987 - 1998 Special Appointment, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge
- 1982 - 1987 Senior Scientist, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge
- 1974 - 1982 Scientific Staff Member, The MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge
- 1972 - 1974 EMBO Fellow at the Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
- 1971 - 1972 NATO Fellow at the CNRS, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
- 1969 - 1971 Postdoctoral Fellow at The School of Pharmacy, University of Wisconsin, Madison, U. S. A.
Fields of Scholarship
- Understanding the molecular mechanism of how ATP is made
- Mitochondrial proteome
Honours and Awards
- 1983 Member of The European Molecular Biology Organisation
- 1995 Fellow of The Royal Society, London
- 1997 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- 1997 Fellow of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge
- 1998 Founding Fellow of The Academy of Medical Sciences, London
- 1999 Knight Bachelor
- 1999 Foreign Member of The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 2003 Foreign Member of L’Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Rome, Italy
- 2004 Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences, U. S. A.
- 2009 Fellow of the Science Museum, London
- 2009 Honorary Fellow, Society of Biology, London
