| RefNo | EC/2021/56 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Dixit, Vishva Mitra: certificate of election to the Royal Society |
| Date | 21 April 2021 |
| Description | Certificate endorsing election of Vishva Dixit as a Foreign Member of the Royal Society, including personal details of the elected Foreign Member and citation giving the reasons for election and names of proposers. Signed by the Executive Director of the Royal Society, Julie Maxton. |
| Citation | Vishva M. Dixit has made many contributions to biomedicine and his early work on apoptosis is now prominent in introductory textbooks of biology and medicine. His laboratory was among the first to show that caspases are components of the death receptor-induced apoptotic pathway, demonstrating that death receptors signal by novel mechanism of recruiting and activating a death protease by an induced proximity mechanism. He identified the mammalian death protease equivalent to the CED3 protein in worms as well as the other pro-apoptotic caspases including caspase-6, -7 and -9. He also showed that the death domain-containing molecule MyD88 is a key signalling adaptor. Most recently he discovered the non-canonical inflammasome pathway. Dixit is a Foreign Member, European Molecular Biology Organization, a member of the National Academy of Medicine, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences. |
| Extent | 4p |
| Format | Computer printout |
| PhysicalDescription | A4 papers |
| AccessStatus | Closed |
| AccessConditions | Election certificates are subject to 50 year closure period from date of election. Details of proposers and date certificate was first submitted for candidacy are kept confidential until the 50 year closure period has elapsed. |