Prof Gabriel Waksman
S A Courtauld Chair of Biochemistry (and Professor of Structural Biology)
Structural & Molecular Biology
Div of Biosciences
- Joined UCL
- 1st Jan 2001
Education
- University of Paris
- Doctorate, Doctor of Philosophy | 1982
- University of Paris
- Other higher degree, Diplome d'etudes approfondies | 1980
- University of Paris
- First Degree, Bachelor of Science | 1979
Biography
Gabriel Waksman obtained his PhD in 1982 from the University of Paris.
After a short spell in industry and a postdoctoral training at the
Rockefeller University in New York, he joined the faculty of Washington
University School of Medicine (St Louis, USA) in 1993. In 2000, he
became the Alumni Endowed Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular
Biophysics, and in 2002 was appointed the first Roy and Diana Vagelos
Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics. In 2003, he moved to
London (UK) to take up the Joint Chair of Structural Molecular Biology
at University College London and Birkbeck College London. The same year,
he was awarded a Wolfson-Royal Society Merit Award and was appointed
the Head of the Institute of Structural and Molecular Biology at
UCL/Birkbeck. In 2006, he was appointed to the Courtauld Chair in
Biochemistry at UCL, became Head of the Department of Biochemistry and
Molecular Biology (now Research Department of Structural and Molecular
Biology) at UCL and was appointed Head of the School of Crystallography
(now Department of Biological Sciences) at Birkbeck. He was elected to
EMBO in 2007 and a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences in 2008 and
a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2012. He maintains an active research
programme in the Structural Biology of Bacterial Secretion Systems
funded by a senior investigator award from the Wellcome Trust, an
Advanced ERC grant and a programme grant from MRC.