Sir Richard Treisman | |
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 Treisman in 2015 | |
| Born | (1954-10-07)7 October 1954 (age 71)[6] |
| Education | Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School |
| Alma mater | Christ's College, Cambridge University College London |
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| Institutions | Francis Crick Institute Harvard University University of Cambridge Laboratory of Molecular Biology |
| Thesis | The structures of polyoma virus-specific nuclear and cytoplasmic RNA molecules (1981) |
| Doctoral advisor | Bob Kamen[4] |
| Other academic advisors | Tom Maniatis |
| Notable students | Richard Marais[5] |
| Website | www |
Sir Richard Henry Treisman (born 7 October 1954)[6] is a British scientist specialising in themolecular biology of cancer. Treisman is a director of research at theFrancis Crick Institute in London.
Treisman was educated atHaberdashers' Aske's Boys' School[6] andChrist's College, Cambridge, where he was awarded a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1977.[6] He completed his postgraduate study at theImperial Cancer Research Fund (ICRF) andUniversity College London, where he was awarded a PhD for research onpolyomavirus transcription andRNA processing supervised by Bob Kamen[4] in 1981.[7]
After his PhD, Treisman pursuedpostdoctoral research atHarvard University onglobin gene expression andthalassemia genes withTom Maniatis. In 1984, he joined theMedical Research Council (MRC)Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB) at theUniversity of Cambridge, where he started working on howgrowth factors control transcription. Initially focusing on theFos gene, he identified thetranscription factorSerum response factor (SRF) and cloned its gene, before returning to London in 1988.[8]
He showed that theTCF family of SRFcofactors are targets forMitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) signalling, and demonstrated that the MRTF transcription cofactors are novelG-actin binding proteins that sense fluctuations in G-actin concentration. He continues to focus on SRF's regulatory cofactors and their cognate signalling pathways.[8]
Treisman was Director of theCancer Research UK (CRUK)London Research Institute from 2000 to 2015, becoming Research Director of the Francis Crick Institute in 2009.
Treisman was elected a member of theEuropean Molecular Biology Organization[when?] and aFellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences (FMedSci);[when?] he received theEMBO Gold Medal in 1995[9] and theLouis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine in 2002.[2] He was elected aFellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1994 and knighted in the2016 Birthday Honours.[3][10]
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