Helen Saibil | |
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Born | August 12, 1950 |
Academic background | |
Education | McGill University |
Alma mater | King's College London |
Thesis | Diffraction studies of retinal rod outer segment membranes (1977) |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Molecular biology |
Sub-discipline | Structural biology |
Institutions | Birkbeck,University of London |
Main interests | Molecular chaperones Protein misfolding |
Website | www |
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Helen Saibil:Visualization of Electron Microscopy Structures &Multi-scale Assemblies |
Helen Ruth Saibil FRS FMedSci (born August 12,1950) [1] is a Canadian-British molecular biologist and Professor of Structural Biology at the Department of Crystallography of Birkbeck,University of London. [2] [3] Her research is largely focuses on molecular chaperones and protein misfolding.
Saibil completed undergraduate studies at McGill University in 1971 followed by a PhD at King's College London,receiving her thesis in 1977 entitled Diffraction studies of retinal rod outer segment membranes. [4] [5] Saibil went on to work at CEA Grenoble and the University of Oxford. [6] Saibil has been at Birkbeck since 1989,and was elected to the Royal Society in 2006 [7] and the Academy of Medical Sciences in 2009. [8] [9]
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