Paul Nurse#
| Membership Number: | 961 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CELL & DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 1991 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.crick.ac.uk/research/a-z-researchers/researchers-k-o/paul-nurse |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2011 Director and Chief Executive of the UK Centre for Medical Research and Innovation
- 2010 President of the Royal Society
- 2003 - 2010 President of Rockefeller University
- 1996 - 2003 Director General of the ICRF
- 1993 - 1996 Director of Research at the ICRF
- 1988 - 1993 Chair the department of microbiology at the University of Oxford
- 1984 - 1988 Professor at the Imperial Cancer Research Fund (ICRF, now Cancer Research UK)
- 1973 Ph.D. at University of East Anglia
Fields of Scholarship
- Molecular machinery that drives cell division and controls cell shape
Honours and Awards
- Royal Society Copley Medal, 2005
- Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 2001
- Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research
- Fellow of the Royal Society
- Foreign associate of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences
- Knighthood for services to cancer research and cell biology, 1999
