Hooke Medal Winner 2016: Thomas Surrey

Biography: After completing his PhD on membrane protein folding with Prof. Fritz Jaehnig (Max-Planck-Institute for Biology, 1990-1995), Thomas undertook his postdoctoral studies with Prof. Stanislas Leibler (Princeton University, 1995-1997) and Dr. Eric Karsenti (European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) Heidelberg, 1998-2001). He then became Staff Scientist (2001), Team Leader (2002) and Group Leader (2006) at EMBL, before he was appointed Senior Group Leader at the Cancer Research UK London Research Institute (2011) which then became part of the Francis Crick Institute (2015). Thomas was elected a member of EMBO in 2012.

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