Hugh Reginald Brentnall Pelham
Director, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, University of Cambridge
About Hugh Reginald Brentnall Pelham
Born 1954. Hugh Reginald Brentnall Pelham is a British cell biologist.
Sir Hugh Reginald Brentnall Pelham, (born 26 August 1954)
Education Pelham was educated at Marlborough College in Marlborough, Wiltshire and Christ's College, Cambridge. He graduated with a Master of Arts degree in Natural Sciences followed by a PhD for research on transcription and translation in immature blood cells (Reticulocytes). His PhD was supervised by Richard J. Jackson and Tim Hunt,
Pelham has been a visiting professor at the University of Zurich and held many posts at the Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, where he succeeded Richard Henderson to become the LMB's Director in 2006.
Pelham gave the Florey Lecture in 1992, was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences (FMedSci) in 1998.
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Director, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, University of Cambridge
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