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.[citation needed]
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]