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8th in the UK in Biosciences in the 2012 Guardian University Guide, and Chemistry, which had been threatened with closure in 2006, has been revitalised with the appointment of new Faculty in Organic and Synthetic Chemistry, and with the launch of a university-funded initiative in Medicinal Chemistry and Drug Discovery.
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On arrival at Sussex he undertook the restructuring of the School of Life Sciences which resulted in nearly one third of the faculty accepting early retirement or leaving the university, and rationalised the degree programs, stopping a number of poorly-recruiting Masters programmes. Sussex now ranks
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for his significant contributions to our understanding of the biochemical and structural basis for assembly, specificity and regulation of the proteins and complexes that carry out DNA repair and DNA damage signalling, signal transduction, and chaperone-dependent protein activation.
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He is a founder and CSO of Domainex Ltd, an innovative biotech company that won the 2010 Life Sciences and Enterprise Programme of The Year Award, and the "Innovation in Enabling Biotechnology" Prize at 2007 UKTI Bioentrepreneurial Company of the Year Awards.
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Laurence Pearl has applied structural, biochemical and genetic techniques, to elucidate the molecular basis of function and specificity in systems of fundamental biomedical importance. His pioneering work on
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molecular chaperone system. Although focussed on understanding basic mechanisms, his laboratory is committed to translating this understanding to the discovery of new drugs for patient benefit.
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His research focuses on understanding the structural basis for assembly, specificity and regulation of proteins and complexes involved in human diseases such as
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Sussex ranked 10th overall in the UK for Biological Sciences, and 8th for research outputs in the 2014 Research Excellence Framework (
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who is currently Professor of Structural Biology in the Genome Damage and Stability Centre and was Head of the School of
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Pearl, L. H.; Prodromou, C; Workman, P (2008). "The Hsp90 molecular chaperone: An open and shut case for treatment".
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Who's Who 2014, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2014; online edn, Oxford University Press
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to chair the new Section of Structural Biology (jointly with David Barford) at the Chester Beatty Laboratories in
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team who were semi-finalists in 1984, and achieved the 2nd highest score in the show's history - 430 against
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Pearl, L. H.; Prodromou, C (2006). "Structure and mechanism of the Hsp90 molecular chaperone machinery".
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In 2017 he announced that he would be standing down as Head of the School of Life Sciences at Sussex.
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Genome Damage and Stability Centre, where he holds the position of Professor of Structural Biology.
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From 1 October he took up a joint appointment as Head of the Division of Structural Biology at the
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Prodromou, C; Roe, S. M.; O'Brien, R; Ladbury, J. E.; Piper, P. W.; Pearl, L. H. (1997).
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Pearl, L. H.; Taylor, W. R. (1987). "A structural model for the retroviral proteases".
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as a new target for cancer therapy and for their role in development of the drug
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in 2012. In 2011 he was awarded an inaugural Senior Investigator Award by the
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and then Professor of Structural Biology in 1996. In 1999 he rejoined the
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where he was very active in school drama productions, appearing alongside
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In 2009 he was appointed Head of the new School of Life Sciences at the
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Laurence Pearl was awarded the 2018 Novartis Medal and Prize from the
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Laurence Pearl appears in Stephen Curry's film - "I'm a Scientist"
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Born in Manchester to a working class Jewish family, he went to
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and cancer. He is particularly noted for his early work on the
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Fellows of the Academy of Medical Sciences (United Kingdom)
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Translational Cancer Research Prize along with the team of
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while continuing as Professor of Structural Biology in the
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Members of the European Molecular Biology Organization
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http://www.embo.org/embo-members/find-a-member.html
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Manchester
University College London
Birkbeck College
biochemistry
HIV-1 protease
DNA repair
Enzymes
Hsp90
GSK-3
FRS
FMedSci
EMBO
MAE
Drug discovery
Structural Biology
Biophysics
DNA repair
Genome evolution
Genome instability
Proteins
Biochemistry
University College London
University of Sussex
Institute of Cancer Research
Thesis
Crystallographic studies of endothiapepsin
Doctoral advisor
Tom Blundell
sussex.ac.uk/profiles/243849

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