Kim Nasmyth

Professor Kim Nasmyth FRS is the Whitley Professor of Biochemistry (Trinity College, Oxford). Nasmyth was formerly the Director of the Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP) in Vienna, Austria and former Head of the Department of Biochemistry of the University of Oxford. His research focuses on the fundamental questions of molecular biology, using Saccharomyces cerevisiae as a model organism. He is a codiscoverer of cohesin, a protein complex crucial for faithful chromosome segregation during cell division. He is a member of the Advisory Council for the Campaign for Science and Engineering. In the year 1999 he won the Wittgenstein-Preis

Awards

 * 1985 Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization
 * 1989 Fellow of the Royal Society
 * 1997 Louis-Jeantet-Preis
 * 1999 Wittgenstein-Preis
 * 1999 Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
 * 2007 Gairdner Foundation International Award