Nationality British | Name Michael Neuberger | |
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Born Michael Samuel Neuberger
2 November 1953
London, United Kingdom ( 1953-11-02 ) Institutions Laboratory of Molecular Biology Alma mater University of Cambridge
Imperial College London (PhD) Thesis Transducing phages for analysis of gene duplications (1978) Died October 26, 2013, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States Education University of Cambridge, Imperial College London, Trinity College, Cambridge, Westminster School Notable awards Royal Society, Academy of Medical Sciences, United Kingdom | ||
Doctoral advisor Brian S. Hartley | ||
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Michael Samuel Neuberger FRS FMedSci (2 November 1953 – 26 October 2013) was a British biochemist and immunologist.
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- Febs advanced lecture course lecture of dr michael neuberger uk
- Education
- Career
- Awards and honours
- Personal life
- References
Education
Born in London, he was educated at Westminster School, and then read Natural Sciences at Trinity College, Cambridge as a scholar where he obtained a Master of Arts; he then obtained a PhD at Imperial College, London.
Career
He was a fellow of, and director of studies at Trinity College, Cambridge from 1985 and Professor of molecular immunology there since 2002. He supervised students reading the Natural Sciences Tripos in the fields of cell biology and biochemistry.
He was also joint head of the Protein and Nucleic Acid Chemistry division at the Medical Research Council's Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, UK, alongside Mariann Bienz.
Awards and honours
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1993 and was awarded their GlaxoSmithKline Prize in 2003. He also received the Novartis medal in 2002 and delivered the Novartis medal lecture, entitled "Antibodies: a Paradigm for the Evolution of Molecular Recognition" on 9 April 2002 at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh.
Personal life
He was the son of Albert Neuberger, the brother of James Neuberger, Anthony Neuberger, and David Neuberger, Baron Neuberger of Abbotsbury, and the brother-in-law of Julia Neuberger. He died of myeloma, a cancer of antibody-producing cells, at Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, on 26 October 2013.