Nigel David Forster Grindley FRS (born 24 November 1945)[1] is a British biochemist and Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry at Yale University.[2]

He studied at the University of Cambridge (BA, 1967) and London University (Ph.D, 1974).[2] He taught at University of Pittsburgh.

He was a 1987 Guggenheim Fellow,[3] and won a 1991 MERIT award from the National Institutes of Health.[4]

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2006.[5] He was named as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2008.[6]

At Yale his team are studying the effects of a variety of enzymes on DNA.[2]

References

  1. GRINDLEY, Prof. Nigel David Forster, Who's Who 2014, A & C Black, 2014; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014
  2. 1 2 3 "Nigel Grindley". Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University. Archived from the original on 14 April 2012.
  3. "Nigel D.F. Grindley". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Archived from the original on 2 August 2012. Retrieved 1 October 2013.
  4. "Yale biochemist is elected to the world's oldest scientific society". Medicine@Yale. Yale School of Medicine. July–August 2006. Retrieved 1 October 2013.
  5. "Royal Society fellows 1660-2007" (PDF). Royal Society. Retrieved 8 March 2012.
  6. "New AAAS Fellows". Medicine@Yale. Yale School of Medicine. November–December 2007. Retrieved 1 October 2013.
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