Person Dobson; Christopher Martin (1949 - 2019) Dobson Christopher Martin 1949 - 2019 British Male Rinteln, Germany, Europe 08/10/1949 19491008 08/09/2019 20190908

Chemist Biophysics Chemistry Proteins Protein folding Education: Hereford Cathedral Junior School; Abingdon School; Keble College, University of Oxford, BA (1971) BSc in chemistry (1971); Merton College Oxford MA (1974), DPhil (1976); University of Cambridge, ScD (2007) Career: Research Fellow, Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory, University of Oxford (1975-1977); Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Harvard University (1977-1980); Visiting Scientist, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1977-1980); University Lecturer, Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory, University of Oxford (1980-1995); Reader (Aldrichian Praelector) in Chemistry, University of Oxford (1995-1996); Director, Oxford Centre for Molecular Sciences (1998-2001); Presidential Visiting Scholar, University of California San Francisco (2001); John Humphrey Plummer Professor of Chemistry and Structural Biology, University of Cambridge (2001-2017); Sammet Guest Professor, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt (2007); Master of St John's College, Cambridge (2007-2019); Director, Cambridge Centre for Misfolding Diseases (2012- ); Vallee Foundation Visiting Professor (2014); Co-founder, Wren Theraputics (2016); Distinguished Visiting Professor, Hong Kong University (2017) Memberships: American Biophysical Society (1998); Member of the European Molecular Biology Organisation (1999); Protein Society (pPresident 2001); Honorary Member, National Magnetic Resonance Society of India (2004); Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences (FMedSci, 2005); Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2007); Fellow of the International Society of Magnetic Resonance (2008); Honorary Fellow, Linacre College, University of Oxford (2008); Honorary Fellow, Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford (2008); Honorary Fellow, Merton College, University of Oxford (2009); Honorary Fellow, Keble College, University of Oxford (2009); Honorary Fellow of the Chemical Council of India, 2010; Foreign Associate of the US National Academy of Sciences (2014); Member of the Academia Europaea (2011); Honorary Fellow of the Indian Biophysical Society (2012); Honorary Fellow, Trinity College Dublin (2013); Foreign Associate of the US National Academy of Sciences (2013); Honorary Fellow, Darwin College, University of Cambridge (2014); International Member of the American Philosophical Society (2018) Medals and Awards: Corday Morgan Medal and Prize, The Royal Society of Chemistry, 1983; Howard Hughes International Research Scholar, 1992;Brunauer Award, American Ceramic Society, 1996; Dewey and Kelly Award, University of Nebraska, 1997; Interdisciplinary Award, The Royal Society of Chemistry, 1999; Doctor Honoris Causa, University of Leuven, Belgium, 2001; Bijvoet Medal, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands, 2002; Silver Medal, Italian Society of Biochemistry, 2002; Stein and Moore Award, The Protein Society, 2003; Honorary Doctor of Medicine, Umea University, Sweden, 2005; Hans Neurath Award, The Protein Society, 2006; Honorary Doctor of Medicine, University of Florence, Italy, 2006; Doctor Honoris Causa, University of Liège, Belgium, 2007; Khorana Award, The Royal Society of Chemistry, 2010; Honorary Doctor of Science, King's College London, 2012; Heineken Prize for Biophysics and Biochemistry, The Royal Netherlands Academy, 2014; Feltrinelli International Prize for Medicine, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Rome, 2014 Chris Dobson’s research activities were primarily concerned with defining the fundamental origin of neurodegenerative disorders, such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases. His main objective was to identify new strategies for their prevention or treatment. He was the John Humphrey Plummer Professor of Chemical and Structural Biology at the University of Cambridge, and Master of St John’s College. He was an undergraduate, graduate student and Research Fellow at the University of Oxford. He became an Assistant Professor of Chemistry at Harvard University before returning to Oxford, where he was a Professor of Chemistry until moving to Cambridge in 2001. Chris was a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences, and a Foreign Associate of the US National Academy of Sciences. Amongst the awards he received were the Davy and Royal medals of the Royal Society, the 2014 Heineken Prize for Biochemistry and Biophysics from the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the 2014 Feltrinelli International Prize for Medicine from the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei in Italy. Sir Christopher Dobson FMedSci FRS died on 8 September 2019. Medals and prizes: Davy Medal 2005. For his work on the application of NMR and other structural methods for studying protein folding and misfolding, especially the formation of amyloid fibrils, leading to novel insights on protein structure and folding. ; Royal Medal 2009. For his outstanding contributions to the understanding of the mechanisms of protein folding and mis-folding, and the implications for disease. Lectures: Bakerian 2003. On 'Protein folding and misfolding: from theory to therapy'. Fellow 14/03/1996 46 Sources: https://royalsociety.org/people/christopher-dobson-11340/ https://www.ch.cam.ac.uk/person/cmd44 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Dobson International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) - Ottawa 1996 ISBN 0-9696035-3-3 National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5445-680X 08 Oct 1949 - 08 Sep 2019 NA2207 21/11/2001 Andyg Pmab 28/03/2023 RS_NET\JonathanB Yes http://viaf.org/viaf/5102189 6f869a01-0989-4737-b790-8e027e992269