Michael J O Wakelam

Life

Michael Wakelam received a BSc in medical Biochemistry (1977) and a PhD in Biochemistry (1980) from the University of Birmingham. After a post-doctoral training at the University of Konstanz (DE), he joined the department of Biochemistry of Imperial College London in 1983. In 1985, he joined the Biochemistry department of the University of Glasgow as a Lecturer (1985), Senior Lecturer (1991) and Reader (1992). He became Professor of molecular pharmacology at the University of Birmingham in 1993. In 2007, he became director of the Babraham Institute in Cambridge.