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Margaret Buckingham | |
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| Born | 2 March 1945 Scotland |
| Nationality | British |
| Citizenship | dual French-British |
| Alma mater | University of Oxford |
| Website | www |
Margaret Buckingham, ForMemRS, is a developmental biologist working in the fields of myogenesis and cardiogenesis. She is a professor emeritus at the Pasteur Institute in Paris and exceptional grade senior researcher emeritus at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique.[1] She is a member of the European Molecular Biology Organization, the Academia Europaea and the French Academy of Sciences.[2]
Education and early career[edit]
After graduating from Oxford University, where her thesis was on histone modifications, she joined F. Gros's laboratory at the Pasteur Institute to work on mRNA regulation during skeletal muscle differentiation.[3]
Awards and honours[edit]
- Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 2014[4]
- Foreign Member of the Royal Society, 2013
- CNRS Gold Medal, 2013[5]
- Lifetime Achievement Award of the American Society for Developmental Biology, 2010
- Officier de l'Ordre National du Mérite, 2008
- Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur, 2002
- CNRS Silver Medal, 1999
- Prix Jaffé of the Académie des Sciences, 1990
References[edit]
- ^ "Developmental biologist Margaret Buckingham is awarded the 2013 CNRS Gold Medal". Consulate General of France in Vancouver. Retrieved 4 November 2013.
- ^ "Professor Margaret Buckingham ForMemRS". The Royal Society. Retrieved 5 May 2013.
- ^ "Professor Margaret Buckingham ForMemRS". Agence d'evaluation de la recherche et de l'enseignement superieur. Archived from the original on 22 October 2013. Retrieved 12 October 2013.
- ^ "Professor Margaret Elizabeth Buckingham FRS, HonFRSE". The Royal Society of Edinburgh. Retrieved 9 February 2018.
- ^ ARTIFICA (18 September 2013). "Developmental biologist Margaret Buckingham is awarded the 2013 CNRS Gold Medal". CNRS (in French). Retrieved 3 November 2017.