About Nigel Grindley
Born 1945. Nigel Grindley is a biochemist.
Nigel David Forster Grindley FRS (born 24 November 1945) is a British biochemist and Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry at Yale University.
Life and career Grindley attended Denstone College in Staffordshire before studying at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge (BA, 1967), and London University (PhD, 1974). and won a 1991 MERIT award from the National Institutes of Health. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2006. He was named as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2008.
At Yale his team are studying the effects of a variety of enzymes on DNA.
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