Prof Sir Aaron Klug
Scientific Advisor
Scientific Advisory Committee
Plasticell
Japan
Biography
Sir Aaron has been a staff scientist at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, since 1962. He has made seminal discoveries in such areas as the structure and function of DNA, RNA, animal and plant viruses and transcription factors. Sir Aaron was the Director of the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology (1986-1996), is a Fellow of the Royal Society and has served as President of the Royal Society (1995-2000), is a Foreign Associate of the US National Academy of Sciences and of the French Academy of Sciences, and an Honorary Fellow of Peterhouse and Trinity College, Cambridge. He has published over 250 research papers and holds an array of honours and prizes among which are the Order of Merit and the 1982 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Research Interest
Molecular Biology
