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Professor Brian F.C. Clark Career:
1961 PhD Cambridge University;
1975 ScD Cambridge University
1964-74 Scientific Staff, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge
1974- Professor of Biostructural Chemistry, University of Aarhus, Denmark
Achievements
1966 Discovery of the Protein Initiation Codon
1968 First crystallisation of a tRNA molecule
1985 The first structure of a GTP-binding domain
1995 Crystal structure of the ternary complex of Phe-tRNAPhe, elongation factor Tu and GTP
1995- Concepts of structural macromolecular mimicry
Areas of Research Interests
• Macromolecular mimicry and molecular mechanism of protein synthesis
• Protein engineering of factors involved in protein synthesis
• Molecular and cellular mechanism of ageing
• Use of phage display to identify differential cellular gene expression
• Functional genomics and technology transfer
Outside Activities
1996-2005 Chairman of the Danish Centre for Molecular Gerontology
1998-1999 Chairman of FEBS
2000-2003 President of the IUBMB
2001- Chairman of TGIR (Task Group on International Relations) of the European Federation of Biotechnology
2001- Member of the Board of Advisors of BankInvest
2003 Vice-Chairman of EMBO Council
Honours
1974- Member of European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
1980- Foreign Member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters
1988- Member of the Danish Academy of Natural Sciences (DNA)
2001- FEBS Diplôme d'Honneur
2005- Copernicus Medal from the Polish Academy of Sciences
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