David Tollervey#
| Membership Number: | 6654 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2023 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | http://tollervey.bio.ed.ac.uk/ |
| ORCID: | 0000-0003-2894-2772 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 1997 - present Wellcome Principal Research Fellow and Professor of RNA Biology, Wellcome Centre for Cell Biology, University of Edinburgh
- 2011 - 2021 Director, Wellcome Centre for Cell Biology, University of Edinburgh.
- 1988 - 1997 Group-leader. EMBL, Heidelberg.
- 1984 - 1988 Chargé de Recherche I. Institut Pasteur, Paris.
- 1981 - 1983 Postdoctoral fellow in the Laboratory of Chris Guthrie. University of California, San Francisco.
- 1977 - 1980 PhD in Genetics. Supervisor: Herb Arst. University of Cambridge.
- 1973 - 1977 BSc. (Hons) in Microbiology. University of Edinburgh.
Fields of Scholarship
- RNA biology
- RNA synthesis
- RNA degradation
- Protein synthesis
- ncRNAs in disease
- RNA surveillance
- Ribosome synthesis
Honours and Awards
- 1998 Member of EMBO, 1998
- 2004 Fellow of the Royal Society of London
- 2004 Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
- 2007 - 2008 Elected President of the RNA Society
- 2008 Honorary Doctorate, University of Toulouse
- 2016 Biochemical Society Novartis Medal and Prize
- 2016 Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology
- 2017 Mendel Medal, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
- 2022 Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences
