The Sir Ernst Chain Lecture 2018: Professor Christopher M. Dobson

This event is free to attend
Professor Christopher M Dobson, FRS, FMedSci, John Humphrey Plummer Professor of Chemical and Structural Biology at the University of Cambridge, and Master of St John’s College, presents the annual Sir Ernst Chain lecture:
Protein folding and disease

Lecture, G16, Sir Alexander Fleming Building: 17.00
Reception, Sir Alexander Fleming Building: 18.00
Seats will be allocated on a first come first serve basis. Additional seating will be available in our overflow room which will be showing a livestream of the lecture.
Biography
Chris Dobson is 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 then 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. His research activities are primarily concerned with discovering the fundamental origins of neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases, with the objective of identifying new strategies for their prevention or treatment. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society, the Royal Society of Chemistry and the Academy of Medical Sciences, and a Foreign Associate of the US National Academy of Sciences. He is the recipient of numerous awards including the Davy Medal and the Royal Medal of the Royal Society and most recently the 2014 Dr H.P. Heineken Prize for Biochemistry and Biophysics from the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences and the 2014 Feltrinelli International Prize for Medicine of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei in Rome.
About the Sir Ernst Chain Lecture
The Sir Ernst Chain Lecture is an annual lecture organised by the Department of Life Sciences.
It is named after the Nobel Laureate Sir Ernst Chain, who was Professor of Biochemistry at Imperial. He was a joint-winner of the Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology in 1945, alongside Professor Sir Alexander Fleming, who was at St Mary's Hospital, and Sir Howard Florey for the discovery of Penicillin.