Ramanujan Hegde

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Ramanujan Hegde
FRS
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Hegde in 2016
Born (1970-04-01) 1 April 1970 (age 55)
Kumta, Karnataka, India [1]
Alma mater
Awards EMBO Member (2013)
Scientific career
Fields Biochemistry
Institutions
Thesis The regulation of protein translocation at the endoplasmic reticulum  (1998)
Doctoral advisor Vishwanath R. Lingappa [3]
Website

Ramanujan Shankar Hegde FRS [4] (born 1 April 1970) [1] is a group leader at the Medical Research Council (MRC) Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB). [5] [6]

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Education

Hegde was educated at the University of Chicago [2] where he was awarded a Bachelor of Arts degree [1] [ when? ] and the University of California, San Francisco where he was awarded a Doctor of Medicine (MD) degree in 1999 and PhD in 1998 for research on protein targeting and translocation at the endoplasmic reticulum supervised by Vishwanath R. Lingappa. [2] [3]

Research and career

Hegde's research [7] investigates how proteins are localised correctly inside cells, and how errors during protein maturation are recognised and disposed. These processes are important because the accumulation of abnormal proteins is disruptive to cell function, and underlies numerous diseases. [4]

His laboratory have discovered a widely conserved protein targeting pathway [8] needed by a subset of proteins to reach their correct membrane-embedded destination. Their studies of such protein targeting pathways are revealing how membrane proteins are accurately recognised by the machinery responsible for their proper localisation and insertion. Hegde's work has also shown that even modest failures of individual proteins to reach their correct cellular location can lead to neurodegeneration, and that cells have specialised pathways to identify these wayward proteins and target them for destruction. [4]

As of 2016, according to Google Scholar [9] his most cited research include papers published in Science , [10] [11] Nature , [12] and Cell . [8] His research has been funded by the Medical Research Council. [13]

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Ramanujan Hegde in 2001

Awards and honours

Hegde was awarded the R.R. Bensley award in Cell Biology in 2008[ citation needed ] and elected a member of the European Molecular Biology Organisation (EMBO) in 2013. [4] He was also elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2016. [4]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Hegde, Dr Ramanujan S." . Who's Who . A & C Black. 2022. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U287290.(Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  2. 1 2 3 Sedwick, Caitlin (2010). "Ramanujan Hegde: The prion puzzle and protein translocation". The Journal of Cell Biology. 191 (7): 1222–1223. doi:10.1083/jcb.1917pi. PMC   3010069 . PMID   21187325.
  3. 1 2 Hegde, Ramanujan Shankar (1998). The regulation of protein translocation at the endoplasmic reticulum (PhD thesis). OCLC   50795524. ProQuest   304415938.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 Anon (2016). "Dr Ramanujan Hegde FRS". London: royalsociety.org. Archived from the original on 29 April 2016. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where:
    "All text published under the heading 'Biography' on Fellow profile pages is available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License." – "Royal Society Terms, conditions and policies". Archived from the original on 25 September 2015. Retrieved 9 March 2016.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  5. ↑ Anon (2016). "Ramanujan Hegde MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology: Membrane protein biosynthesis and quality control". Cambridge: University of Cambridge. Archived from the original on 13 April 2016.
  6. ↑ Anon (2016). "Hegde Lab: Protein biosynthesis & quality control". mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk. Retrieved 22 December 2016.
  7. ↑ Ramanujan Hegde publications from Europe PubMed Central
  8. 1 2 Stefanovic, Sandra; Hegde, Ramanujan S. (2007). "Identification of a targeting factor for posttranslational membrane protein insertion into the ER". Cell. 128 (6): 1147–1159. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2007.01.036 . PMID   17382883. S2CID   16802797.
  9. ↑ "Ramanujan Hegde publications in Google Scholar". Google Scholar.
  10. ↑ Hegde, R. S. (1998). "A Transmembrane Form of the Prion Protein in Neurodegenerative Disease". Science. 279 (5352): 827–834. Bibcode:1998Sci...279..827H. doi:10.1126/science.279.5352.827. PMID   9452375.
  11. ↑ "Ramanujan S. Hegde". sciencemag.org.
  12. ↑ Hegde, Ramanujan S.; Tremblay, Patrick; Groth, Darlene; DeArmond, Stephen J.; Prusiner, Stanley B.; Lingappa, Vishwanath R. (1999). "Transmissible and genetic prion diseases share a common pathway of neurodegeneration". Nature. 402 (6763): 822–826. Bibcode:1999Natur.402..822H. doi:10.1038/45574. PMID   10617204. S2CID   4354265.
  13. ↑ Anon (2016). "UK Government Grants awarded to Ramanujan Hegde". Swindon: Research Councils UK. Archived from the original on 4 May 2016.


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