Tom Blundell#
| Membership Number: | 1441 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 1993 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | http://www-cryst.bioc.cam.ac.uk/groups/blundell http://www.bioc.cam.ac.uk/people/uto/blundell |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2009 Director of Research, Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge
- 2003 Head, School of Biological Sciences, Cambridge (until September, 2009)
- 1996 Head of Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge (until 2009)
- 1995 Sir William Dunn Professor of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge
- 1995 Professorial Fellow, Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge University
- 1994 Chief Executive, BBSRC (till 1996)
- 1991 Director General, Agricultural and Food Research Council
- 1989 Director, Imperial Cancer Research Fund Unit of Structural Molecular Biology
- 1976 Professor of Crystallography, Birkbeck College, University of London
- 1973 Lecturer, Biological Sciences, Sussex University
- 1968 Junior Research Fellow Molecular Biophysics, Linacre College, Oxford
- 1967 College Lecturer, Hertford College, Oxford University
- 1967 D.Phil., Oxford University
- 1964 First Class Honours, Brasenose College, Oxford University
- 1961 Open Scholarship in Natural Sciences, Brasenose College, Oxford University
Fields of Scholarship
- Structural biology and bioinformatics
- Cell signaling and DNA repair
- Drug discovery
Honours and Awards
- 1984 Fellow of the Royal Society
- 1985 Member of EMBO
- 1986 Alcon Award for Distinguished Work on Vision Research
- 1987 Gold Medal, Institute Biotechnology
- 1987 Krebs Medal, Fed. Eur. Biochem. Soc.
- 1988 Ciba Medal, Biochemical Society
- 1988 Feldberg Prize in Biology and Medicine
- 1993 Member Academia Europaea
- 1995 Fellow, Indian National Science Academy
- 1995 UK National Equal Opportunities Award (for work in BBSRC)
- 1996 Gold Medal, Society for Chemical Industry
- 1997 Knighthood
- 1998 First Recipient, Pfizer European Prize for Innovation
- 1998 Bernal Medal and Lecture, Royal Society
- 1999 Founding Member, Academy of Medical Sciences
- 2005 President of UK Biosciences Federation
- 2006 Honorary Member, British Biophysical Society
- 2006 Honorary Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry
- 2007 Honorary Professor, University of Chengdu, China
- 2008 Foreign Member of Third World Academy of Sciences
- 2008 Ramachandran Professor, Indian Institute of Science Bangalore
- 2009 Honorary Professor, Chinese University of Hong Kong
- 2009 President, Biochemical Society
