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Born | Hugh Reginald Brentnall Pelham 26 August 1954[3] |
Education | Marlborough College |
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Thesis | Transcription and Translation in Reticulocyte Lysates (1978) |
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Website | www2 |
Sir Hugh Reginald Brentnall Pelham, FRS FMedSci[6][7] (born 26 August 1954)[3] is a cell biologist who has contributed to our understanding of the body's response to rises in temperature through the synthesis of heat shock proteins.[7] He served as director of the Medical Research Council (MRC) Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB) between 2006 and 2018.[8]