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Alma mater | University of Zürich |
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Institutions | Laboratory of Molecular Biology |
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Mariann Bienz, Lady Pelham FRS FMedSci (born 21 December 1953, Winterthur) is a Swiss-British [2] molecular biologist based at the UK Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology. She has been a member of their Senior Scientific Staff since 1991, [3] was Joint-head of Cell Biology in 2007-08[ citation needed ] and has been a Group Leader of Protein and Nucleic Acid Chemistry Division since 2008. [4]
She was educated at Gymnasium Winterthur and the University of Zürich where she studied Zoology and Molecular Biology and earned her PhD in 1981. [5]
Bienz subsequently undertook postdoctoral research at the LMB and in 1986 returned to Zürich as assistant professor, and then (1990) associate professor also serving as a member of EMBO in 1989. [6]
Married to biologist Sir Hugh Pelham since 1996. [7]
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