Background
He was born and educated in Montreal, and he obtained his B.Sc in 1959 and an M.D.C.M. in 1963, both from McGill University.
university professor molecular biologist
He was born and educated in Montreal, and he obtained his B.Sc in 1959 and an M.D.C.M. in 1963, both from McGill University.
McGill University.
His research has been in immunology, cell biology, and developmental neurobiology. He was an intern and Assistant Resident in Medicine at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Montreal (1963-1965) and a Resident in Neurology at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston (1965-1968). He did postdoctoral training in immunology with Avrion Mitchison at the National Institute for Medical Research in Mill Hill, London (1968–1971), after which he moved to University College London, where he has been since 1971.
He was President of the British Society of Cell Biology (1991-1995).
He retired from active science in 2002, but he still serves on various scientific advisory boards in Europe and America. He is an original co-author of two widely used cell biology textbooks: Molecular Biology of the Cell and Essential Cell Biology.
He has received the following awards for his research: 1974: Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization 1985: Fellowship of the Royal Society 1988: Member of Academia Europaea 1989: Feldberg Prize given by Feldberg Foundation 1989: Honorary Member of the American Neurological Society 1998: Inaugural Fellow of the British Academy of Medical Sciences 1999: Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 2001: Hamdan Award for Medical Research Excellence, awarded by Sheikh Hamdan bin Rashid First Rate (at Lloyd's) Maktoum Award for Medical Sciences, United Arab Emirates 2003: Foreign Associate Member of the United States National Academy of Sciences 2005: Honorary Degree, McGill University 2006: The Biochemical Society Award 2007: Honorary Degree, Vrije Universiteit Brussel 2010: DART/New York University Biotechnology Achievement Award in Basic Science.
Royal Society; National Academy of Sciences. Academia Europaea.
