Richard Treisman

Edit links
Source: Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Sir Richard Treisman
Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School
Alma materChrist's College, Cambridge (BA)
University College London (PhD)
Awards
Scientific career
Institutions
Laboratory of Molecular Biology
ThesisThe structures of polyoma virus-specific nuclear and cytoplasmic RNA molecules (1981)
Doctoral advisorBob Kamen[4]
Other academic advisorsTom Maniatis
Notable studentsRichard Marais[5]
Websitewww.crick.ac.uk/research/a-z-researchers/researchers-t-u/richard-treisman/

Sir Richard Henry Treisman (born 7 October 1954)[6] FRS FMedSci[7][8] is a British scientist specialising in the molecular biology of cancer. Treisman is a director of research at the Francis Crick Institute in London.

Education

Treisman was educated at

Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School[6] and Christ's College, Cambridge, where he was awarded a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1977.[6] He completed his postgraduate study at the Imperial Cancer Research Fund (ICRF) and University College London, where he was awarded a PhD for research on polyomavirus transcription and RNA processing supervised by Bob Kamen[4] in 1981.[9]

Career and research

After his PhD, Treisman pursued

Fos gene, he identified the transcription factor Serum response factor (SRF) and cloned its gene, before returning to London in 1988.[7]

He showed that the

G-actin binding proteins that sense fluctuations in G-actin concentration. He continues to focus on SRF's regulatory cofactors and their cognate signalling pathways.[7]

Treisman was Director of the Cancer Research UK (CRUK) London Research Institute from 2000 to 2015, becoming Research Director of the Francis Crick Institute in 2009.

Awards and honours

Treisman was elected a member of the

Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1994 and knighted in the 2016 Birthday Honours.[3][11]

References

  1. ^ "EMBO MEMBER: Richard Treisman". people.embo.org.
  2. ^ a b Louis-Jeantet Prize
  3. ^ a b "No. 61608". The London Gazette. 11 June 2016. p. B2.
  4. ^ a b "Voices of the Fifth Floor – Blue Skies and Bench Space". blueskiesbenchspace.org.
  5. PMID 20518862
    .
  6. ^
    doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.37996. (Subscription or UK public library membership
    required.)
  7. ^ a b c Anon (1994). "Richard Treisman". royalsociety.org. London: Royal Society. Archived from the original on 27 October 2017. Retrieved 27 May 2018. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where:

    "All text published under the heading 'Biography' on Fellow profile pages is available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License." --Royal Society Terms, conditions and policies at the Wayback Machine (archived 2016-11-11)
  8. ^ Richard Treisman publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
  9. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.290828
    .
  10. PMID 7588619
    .
  11. ^ Anon (2016). "Birthday honours: Mitochondrial disease doctor recognised". BBC.

 This article incorporates text available under the CC BY 4.0 license.

Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Richard_Treisman&oldid=1179858541"