Jeremy Brockes
Jeremy Patrick Brockes FRS (born 29 February 1948 Haslemere, Surrey) is a British biochemist,[1] and MRC Research Professor at University College London.[2]
Life
He earned a BA from Cambridge University, and a PhD in molecular biology from Edinburgh University in the laboratory of the late Kenneth Murray and Noreen Murray. He did post-doctoral research at Harvard Medical School (with Zach Hall) and University College London (with Martin Raff), before appointments at Caltech, King's College London and University College London. He studies the mechanisms underlying limb regeneration in salamanders. He is the uncle of award-winning journalist and author Emma Brockes.
Works
- Kumar A, Godwin JW, Gates PB, Garza-Garcia AA, Brockes JP. Molecular basis for the nerve dependence of limb regeneration in an adult vertebrate. Science 330, 485-490 (2007).
- Jeremy P. Brockes, Amoop Kumar, Cristiana P. Velloso, "Regeneration as an evolutionary variable" J Anat. 2001 Jul-Aug; 199(Pt 1-2): 3–11.
- Neuroimmunology, Plenum Press, 1982, ISBN 978-0-306-40955-4.
Awards and Prizes
1985 Scientific Medal, Zoological Society of London.
2008 Newcomb Cleveland Prize (joint recipient), AAAS.
References
- ↑ http://www.debretts.com/people/biographies/browse/b/16977/Jeremy%20Patrick+BROCKES.aspx
- ↑ "Jeremy Brockes". www.ucl.ac.uk. Retrieved 2016-02-20.