William Earnshaw#
| Membership Number: | 5981 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CELL & DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2022 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.earnshawlab.com |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-7191-0621 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 1996 - present Professor and Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow, Wellcome Centre for Cell Biology, Institute of Cell Biology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
- 1982 - 1996 Associate Prof. of Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
- 1990 - 1996 Professor of Cell Biology and Anatomy, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
- 1986 - 1990 Associate Professor of Cell Biology and Anatomy, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
- 1982 - 1986 Assistant Professor of Cell Biology and Anatomy, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
- 1981 - 1982 Maître-Assistant. Department of Molecular Biology, University of Geneva, Switzerland.
- 1977 - 1981 Postdoctoral Fellow, MRC Molecular Biology Lab, Cambridge, England (with Aaron Klug, R.A. Crowther, Ron Laskey) postdoctoral
- 1981 – 1982 Maître Assistant in Cell Biology, Université de Génève, Génève, Switzerland (with Ulrich Laemmli)
- 1973 - 1977 Ph.D. Student Department of Biology Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
- 1968 - 1972 Student, Colby College, Waterville, Maine USA B.A. summa cum laude
Fields of Scholarship
- Mitotic chromosome
- CENP-A, CENP-B, CENP-C
- Apoptosis
- Mitosis
- Kinetochore
- Chromosome passenger complex (CPC)
- Cell cycle
- Centromere
Honours and Awards
- 2020 Principal Research Fellowship renewed – Wellcome Trust
- 2016 Elected Inaugural Fellow, American Society for Cell Biology
- 2016 Daiwa Adrian Prize for UK-Japan Scientific Collaboration (shared with Hiroshi Masumoto)
- 2015 Principal Research Fellowship renewed - The Wellcome Trust
- 2013 Elected Fellow of the Royal Society, London
- 2011 - 2014 Visiting Professor, National Institute of Genetics, Mishima, JAPAN
- 2009 Awarded Doctorate of Medicine (honoris causa), 1st Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
- 2009 Elected Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences, London
- 2007 Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
- 2005 Principal Research Fellowship renewed - The Wellcome Trust
- 2002 Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland
- 2002 G.J. Mendel Honorary Medal for Merit in the Biological Sciences, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
- 1999 Honorary Medal, Charles University 3rd Faculty of Medicine, Prague
- 1999 Elected Member of EMBO
- 1995 Awarded Principal Research Fellowship - The Wellcome Trust
- 1990 R.R. Bensley Award of the American Association of Anatomists
- 1985 Devil's Bag Award - National Arthritis Foundation
- 1984 Distinguished Young Scientist Award - Maryland Academy of Sciences
- 1980 EMBO Short Term Fellowship, Institute for Medical Biology, Tromsø, Norway
- 1980 Awarded NATO Postdoctoral Fellowship
- 1977 Awarded Helen Hay Whitney Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship
- 1977 Elected to Sigma Xi
- 1973 Awarded National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship
- 1972 Awarded B.A. summa cum laude
- 1971 Elected to Phi Beta Kappa in the Junior year
