Sharon A. Tooze#
| Membership Number: | 6856 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CELL & DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY |
| Affiliated section(s): | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2024 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.crick.ac.uk/research/labs/sharon-tooze |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-2182-3116 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2015 - current Principal Group Leader, The Francis Crick Institute, London, UK
- 2002 - 2015 Senior Group Leader, Cancer Research UK, London, UK
- 1993 - 2002 Junior Group Leader, Imperial Cancer Research Fund, London, UK
- 1990 - 1993 Group Leader, EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany
Fields of Scholarship
- Vesicular trafficking
- Molecular cell biology
- Protein trafficking
- Autophagy
- Secretory pathway
- Organelle biogenesis
Honours and Awards
- 2020 Fellow European Academy of Sciences
- 2019 Georgia Sweet Travel Award for Women in Quantitative Biological Science
- 2018 Fellow of the Academy of Medicine
- 2017 ERC Advanced Grant
- 2014 AcademiaNet fellow
- 2010 EMBO Member
