About Mariann Bienz
Born 1953. Mariann Bienz is a Swiss and British biologist and researcher.
Education She was educated at Gymnasium Winterthur and the University of Zürich where she studied Zoology and Molecular Biology and earned her PhD in 1981.
Her doctoral thesis, Informationelle Suppression bei Drosophila, was completed in 1981.
Career and research Bienz subsequently undertook postdoctoral research at the LMB and in 1986 returned to Zürich as assistant professor, and then (1990) associate professor also serving as a member of EMBO in 1989.
Personal life Married to biologist Sir Hugh Pelham since 1996.
Awards and honours Member EMBO, 1989 Friedrich Miescher Prize, Swiss Biochemical Society, 1990 Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS), 2003 Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences (FMedSci), 2006
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British biologist
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Mariann Bienz was born on 21 December 1953 in Switzerland, Winterthur.
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