Nigel David Forster Grindley FRS (born 24 November 1945) [1] is a British biochemist and Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry at Yale University. [2]
He studied at the University of Cambridge (BA, 1967) and London University (Ph.D, 1974). [2] He taught at University of Pittsburgh.[ citation needed ]
He was a 1987 Guggenheim Fellow, [3] and won a 1991 MERIT award from the National Institutes of Health. [4]
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2006. [5] He was named as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2008. [6]
At Yale his team are studying the effects of a variety of enzymes on DNA. [2]