Background
Akam, Michael Edwin was born on June 19, 1952 in Bromley, Kent, United Kingdom. Son of William Edwin and Evelyn Warriner (Thorne) Akam.
Akam, Michael Edwin was born on June 19, 1952 in Bromley, Kent, United Kingdom. Son of William Edwin and Evelyn Warriner (Thorne) Akam.
Bachelor, Cambridge University, 1974. Doctor of Philosophy, Oxford University, 1978.
College lecturer Magdalen College, Oxford, 1978. Medical Research Council postdoctoral fellow Medical Research Council Laboratory Molecular Biology, Cambridge, 1978-1979. Research fellow Kings College, 1978-1986.
Runyan/Winchell cancer fellow department biochemistry Stanford (California) University, 1979-1981. Medical Research Council senior fellow department genetics Cambridge University, 1982-1989. Wellcome principal fellow Wellcome/Cyclic Redundancy Check Institute, Cambridge, 1990-1997, research professor developmental genetics, 1997.
Professor zoology, director University Museum Zoology, since 1997.
Fellow Royal Entomological Society, Linnean Society, Royal Society. Member Genetical Society Great British, British Society Development Biology (chairman 1989-1994), European Molecular Biology Organization.
Married Margaret Madeleine Bray, April 1979. Children: Thomas, Simon.