Mariann Bienz

Mariann Bienz FRS is a distinguished 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,^[1] and Joint Head of Cell Biology, since 2007.

Life

She was educated at Gymnasium Winterthur and the University of Zürich where she studied Zoology and Molecular Biology and earned her PhD in 1981. She subsequently undertook postdoctoral research at the LMB and in 1986 returned to Zurich as Assistant Professor, and then (1990) Associate Professor also serving as a member of EMBO in 1989.^[2]

She lists her recreations in Who's Who as "Music, mountain walking"^[3]

Awards and honors

• Friedrich Miescher Prize, Swiss Biochemical Soc., 1990
• Fellow of the Royal Society 2003
• FMedSci 2006

References

1. ^ http://www.acmedsci.ac.uk/p59fid4730.html
2. ^ http://www.debretts.com/people/biographies/browse/b/23181/Mariann+BIENZ.aspx
3. ^ Who's Who 2009 Profile for Mariann Bienz

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