Mariann Bienz, Lady Pelham FRS FMedSci (born 21 December 1953, Winterthur) is a Swiss-British [2] molecular biologist based at the UK Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology. She has been a member of their Senior Scientific Staff since 1991,[3] was Joint-head of Cell Biology in 2007-08[citation needed] and has been a Group Leader of Protein and Nucleic Acid Chemistry Division since 2008.[4]
Mariann Bienz | |
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| Born | 21 December 1953 |
| Alma mater | University of Zürich |
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| Institutions | Laboratory of Molecular Biology |
| Website | www2 |
Education
She was educated at Gymnasium Winterthur and the University of Zürich where she studied Zoology and Molecular Biology and earned her PhD in 1981.[5]
Career and research
Bienz subsequently undertook postdoctoral research at the LMB and in 1986 returned to Zürich as assistant professor, and then (1990) associate professor also serving as a member of EMBO in 1989.[6]
Personal life
Married to biologist Sir Hugh Pelham since 1996.[7]
Awards and honours
- Member EMBO, 1989[8]
- Friedrich Miescher Prize, Swiss Biochemical Society, 1990
- Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS), 2003[1]
- Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences (FMedSci), 2006