Background
Bretscher, Anthony Paul was born on September 8, 1950 in Harwell, Berkshire, England. Son of Egon and Hanna Bretscher.
Bretscher, Anthony Paul was born on September 8, 1950 in Harwell, Berkshire, England. Son of Egon and Hanna Bretscher.
After training as a physicist at the University of Cambridge, Doctor Bretscher earned his Doctor of Philosophy in genetics from the University of Leeds.
From there, he was a European Molecular Biology Organization (European Molecular Biology Organization) Fellow in the Department of Biochemistry at Stanford University. He then went as a Max Planck Society Fellow to the Department of Biochemistry in the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen, Germany to work with Klaus Weber. In 1980, he was appointed to the faculty in the Cell Biology Department at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School.
He relocated to Cornell in 1981.
The Bretscher lab studies how microfilaments contribute to cell organization and cell polarity. The lab also studies how microfilaments contribute to membrane trafficking and cell signaling pathways.
Married Janice Sperbeck, May 21, 1983. Children: Heidi, Erika.