Mariann Bienz, Lady Pelham FRS FMedSci (born 21 December 1953, Winterthur) is a Swiss-British

molecular biologist Molecular biology is the branch of biology that seeks to understand the molecular basis of biological activity in and between cells, including biomolecular synthesis, modification, mechanisms, and interactions. The study of chemical and physi ...

based at the UK Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology. She has been a member of their Senior Scientific Staff since 1991, was Joint-head of Cell Biology in 2007-08 and has been a Group Leader of Protein and Nucleic Acid Chemistry Division since 2008.

Education

She was educated at Gymnasium Winterthur and the University of Zürich where she studied Zoology and Molecular Biology and earned her PhD in 1981.

Career and research

Bienz subsequently undertook postdoctoral research at the LMB and in 1986 returned to Zürich as Assistant Professor, and then (1990) Associate Professor also serving as a member of

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in 1989.

Personal life

Married to biologist Sir

Hugh Pelham Sir Hugh Reginald Brentnall Pelham, (born 26 August 1954) is a cell biologist who has contributed to our understanding of the body's response to rises in temperature through the synthesis of heat shock proteins. He served as director of the Med ...

since 1996.

Awards and honours

* Member

, 1989 * Friedrich Miescher Prize, Swiss Biochemical Society, 1990 * Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS), 2003 * Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences (FMedSci), 2006

References

British people of Swiss descent Swiss expatriates in England Female Fellows of the Royal Society University of Zurich alumni Members of the European Molecular Biology Organization Living people British molecular biologists Fellows of the Academy of Medical Sciences (United Kingdom) Academic staff of the University of Zurich Women molecular biologists Wives of knights 1953 births {{UK-scientist-stub