Howard Morris (biochemist)

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Howard Morris

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Morris at the 'Endogenous Opiates' Witness Seminar in November 1995
Born
Howard Redfern Morris

Bolton, Lancashire, United Kingdom
Nationality United Kingdom
Occupation Biochemist
Employer Imperial College

Howard Redfern Morris FRS is a British biochemist.

He worked at Imperial College as a lecturer from 1975 to 1978, as a Reader in Protein Chemistry from 1978 to 1980, and as Professor (later Emeritus) of Biological Chemistry, from 1980. [1] [2]

He is President and CSO, BiopharmaSpec Ltd and serves as a member of the audit committee, of the Institute of Cancer Research. [2]

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1988, [2] and in 2014 received the Society's Royal Medal: [2]

For his pioneering work in biomolecular mass spectrometry including strategy and instrument design and for outstanding entrepreneurship in biopharmaceutical characterisation.

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References

  1. Tilli Tansey; Pippa Catterall; Sonia V Willhoft; Daphne Christie; Lois Reynolds, eds. (1997). Technology Transfer in Britain: The Case of Monoclonal Antibodies; Self and Non-Self: A History of Autoimmunity; Endogenous Opiates; The Committee on Safety of Drugs. Wellcome Witnesses to Contemporary Medicine. History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group. ISBN   978-1-869835-79-8. OL   9320034M. Wikidata   Q29581528.
  2. 1 2 3 4 "Howard Morris". Royal Society . Retrieved 6 June 2017.