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of Washington in Baltimore. He joined the National Institute of Health in 1987, working firstly with Gary Felsenfeld in the Laboratory of Molecular Biology (National Institute of Arthritis, Diabetes and Metabolic Diseases). In 1990 he was appointed Chief of the newly founded Laboratory of Molecular
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is a dynamic phenomenon determining their expression, cell division and differentiation.
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Embryology (LME). He left NIH and moved to the biotechnology firm
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He died as a result of injuries suffered in a road accident in
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He married Elizabeth and had two children, Max and Katherine.
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Prize upon leaving secondary school. He then attended
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Cell Volume 105, Issue 7, 29 June 2001, Pages 849-850
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known for his prominent role in establishing that the
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http://jcs.biologists.org/cgi/reprint/114/17/3073.pdf
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plays a dynamic role in regulating gene expression.
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Burton-on-Trent
Staffordshire
Rio de Janeiro
University of Oxford
cell biologist
chromosomal organisation
genes
Burton-on-Trent
Staffordshire
biology
Biological Council
Oxford University
National Institute for Medical Research
Embryology
Carnegie Institution
Sangamo BioSciences
Richmond, California
chromatin
Rio de Janeiro
http://jcs.biologists.org/cgi/reprint/114/17/3073.pdf
ISBN
0-12-761915-1
Categories
Cell biologists
1959 births
2001 deaths
20th-century British biologists
21st-century British biologists
British expatriate academics in the United States
People from Burton upon Trent

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