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2 unusual facts about Department of Biochemistry


Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford

Until 2008 biochemistry was also occupying the Donald Woods building and the Hans Krebs building, that was deserted after completion of the first part of new biochemistry building in autumn 2008.

William Ward Pigman

William Ward Pigman (March 5, 1910 – September 30, 1977), also known as Ward Pigman, was a former chairman of the Department of Biochemistry at New York Medical College, and a suspected Soviet Union spy as part of the "Karl group" for Soviet Military Intelligence (GRU).



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Alexander Levitzki

From 1968 to 1971, he was a post-doctoral fellow at the Department of Biochemistry, University of California at Berkeley in California, with Professor Daniel E. Koshland, Jr.

Bodhraj Acharya

He is a PhD candidate at the Department of Biochemistry and Cell biology at Kyungpook National University.

Jonathan Simons

Before entering medical school, Simons studied as a Rotary International Postgraduate Fellow in the Humanities at the University of Kent in Canterbury, England, and a Nuffield Foundation Fellow in the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Cambridge.

Kazuyuki Nakamura

Kazuyuki Nakamura is Professor and Chair of the Department of Biochemistry and Functional Proteomics, at Yamaguchi University Graduate School of Medicine.

Prefoldin

Prefoldin was found by the laboratory of Nicholas J. Cowan from the Department of Biochemistry at the New York University Medical Center.

Robert K. Crane

After that, he was professor and chairman of the department of Biochemistry at the Chicago Medical School until 1966 and then became professor and chairman of the department of Physiology and Biophysics at Rutgers Medical School (now known as Robert Wood Johnson Medical School) of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey until 1986.

Tim Hunt

In 1961 he was accepted into Clare College, Cambridge to study Natural Sciences, graduating in 1964 and immediately beginning work in the university Department of Biochemistry under Asher Korner, working with scientists such as Louis Reichardt and Tony Hunter.