Kim Nasmyth#
Email: | kim.nasmyth 'at' bioch.ox.ac.uk |
Membership Number: | 1428 |
Membership type: | ORDINARY |
Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
Section: | CELL & DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY |
Username: | knasmyth |
Elected: | 1993 |

Present and Previous Positions
- Whitley Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Oxford
- Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford
- Director of the Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP) in Vienna, Austria
Fields of Scholarship
- Molecular biology
- Codiscoverer of cohesin, a protein complex crucial for faithful chromosome segregation during cell division
Honours and Awards
- 1985 Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization
- 1988 Fellow of the Royal Society
- 1993 Member of the Academia Europaea
- 1997 Louis-Jeantet-Preis
- 1999 Wittgenstein-Preis
- 1999 Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 2007 Gairdner Foundation International Award
- 2018 2018 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences