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Nobel Laureate Professor Sir John Walker Delivers MRC Lecture
Professor Sir John Walker will deliver the Keynote Medical Research Council (MRC) Lecture, "Biological Energy Conversion and Its Toxic Consequences," on Wednesday, March 19 from 8:00 AM–8:50 AM in Ballroom 6A. He is the Director of the MRC’s Dunn Human Nutrition Unit in Cambridge, United Kingdom. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1997, together with Professor Paul Boyer, for their elucidation of the enzymatic mechanism underlying the synthesis of adenosine triphosphate. His award winning work, which provided insight into the way that life forms produce energy, was conducted at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, in Cambridge, which he joined in 1974.
Professor Walker is a Fellow of the Royal Society, and a foreign member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, of L’Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, and of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is a Fellow of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, and an Honorary Fellow of St. Catherine’s College, Oxford. He was knighted in 1999 for his services to molecular biology and has received honorary doctorates of science from numerous universities.
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