Background
Gait, Michael John was born on December 23, 1948 in Calcutta, India. Son of John Erroll Holmes and Dorothy Vincent Gait.
Gait, Michael John was born on December 23, 1948 in Calcutta, India. Son of John Erroll Holmes and Dorothy Vincent Gait.
Bachelor of Science, University Birmingham (England), 1970. Doctor of Philosophy, University Birmingham (England), 1973.
Research associate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1973-1975; staff scientist, Medical Research Council, Cambridge, England senior staff scientist, Medical Research Council, Cambridge, England, 1987-1994; special appointment, Medical Research Council, Cambridge, England, since 1994. Consultant Collaborative Research Inc., Waltham, Massachusetts, 1979-1985, British Biotechnology Ltd., Oxford, England, 1986-1992, Glaxo Group Research, Greenford, England,1994-1995. Science advisory board Gilead Sciences, Foster City, California, since 1989.
Fellow: Royal Society Chemistry. Member: Bio-chemical Society (secretary/treasurer nucleic acids and molecular biology group 1988-1992, chairman since 2000).
Married Rachel Irma Factor, June 19, 1975 (deceased 1986). 1 child, Jane; married Anna Cleaves, April 10, 1994. Children: Etala, Simmon.