Michael Neuberger

Michael Neuberger
Michael Samuel Neuberger
Born November 2, 1953 (1953-11-02) (age 58)[citation needed]
Institutions Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Alma mater University of Cambridge

Michael Samuel Neuberger FRS (b. London, 2 November 1953) is a British biochemist and immunologist.

Education

He was educated at Westminster School, and then read Natural Sciences at Trinity College, Cambridge as a scholar where he obtained a Master of Arts; he then obtained a PhD at Imperial College, London.

Career

He has been a fellow of, and director of studies at Trinity College since 1985[1] and Professor of molecular immunology there since 2002. He supervises students reading the Natural Sciences Tripos in the fields of cell biology and biochemistry.

He is also joint head of the Protein and Nucleic Acid Chemistry division at the Medical Research Council's Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, UK[2], alongside Mariann Bienz.[3]

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1993[4] and was awarded their GlaxoSmithKline Prize in 2003. He also received the Novartis medal in 2002 and delivered the Novartis medal lecture, entitled "Antibodies: a Paradigm for the Evolution of Molecular Recognition" on April 9, 2002 at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh.

He is the son of Albert Neuberger, the brother of James Neuberger, Anthony Neuberger, and David Neuberger, Baron Neuberger of Abbotsbury, and the brother-in-law of Julia Neuberger.

References

  1. ^ "Trinity College directory of Fellows". http://www.trin.cam.ac.uk/index.php?pageid=176&conid=72. Retrieved December 22, 2010. 
  2. ^ Jones, P. T.; Dear, P. H.; Foote, J.; Neuberger, M. S.; Winter, G. (1986). "Replacing the complementarity-determining regions in a human antibody with those from a mouse". Nature 321 (6069): 522–525. doi:10.1038/321522a0. PMID 3713831.  edit
  3. ^ http://www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/research/pnac
  4. ^ "Royal Society list of Fellows". http://royalsociety.org/about-us/fellowship/fellows/. Retrieved December 22, 2010.