Ian Wilson (biologist)

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Ian Andrew Wilson
Born
Scripps Research Institute
Doctoral advisorDavid C. Phillips
Other academic advisorsDon Craig Wiley

Ian Andrew Wilson is the Hansen Professor of Structural Biology and chair of the Department of Integrative Structural and Computational Biology

Scripps Research Institute in San Diego, California, United States
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Education

He received his BSc in biochemistry from the

postdoctoral research at Harvard University with Don Craig Wiley from 1977 to 1982 during which he solved the first crystal structure of the influenza virus hemagglutinin.[4][2]

Career and research

After his postdoc positions, he joined the

Hepatitis C virus envelope glycoproteins.[5] His team was reported by the 6 February 2004 edition of Science magazine to have managed to synthesise the hemagglutinin protein responsible for the 1918 outbreak of Spanish flu.[6]

Since 2000, he has directed the Joint Center for Structural Genomics (JCSG) that has pioneered innovative new methods for high throughput structural studies, including x-ray and NMR. The JCSG has determined over 700 structures that focus on the expanding protein universe.[7]

Awards and honours

He was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of London in 2000, a Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2002, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2008, a foreign associate of the National Academy of Sciences in 2016.[8] He also served on the Life Sciences jury for the Infosys Prize in 2014.

Personal life

Ian was born in Perth, Scotland. His father was a journalist.[2]

References

  1. ^ "Integrative Structural and Computational Biology | Scripps Research". www.scripps.edu.
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    PMID 28439000
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  6. ^ "The Scripps Research Institute - News and Views". www.scripps.edu.
  7. PMID 20944202
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  8. ^ National Academy of Sciences Members and Foreign Associates Elected, News from the National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Sciences, 3 May 2016, archived from the original on 6 May 2016, retrieved 14 May 2016.

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