18 Facts About Andrea Brand

Andrea Hilary Brand was born on March 9,1959 and is the Herchel Smith Professor of Molecular Biology and a Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge.

Andrea Brand graduated from the UN International School in New York and in 1977, inspired by the work of Rosalind Franklin, she moved to Britain to study biochemistry at the University of Oxford.

Andrea Brand studied at Oxford from 1977 to 1981, earning a Bachelor of Arts degree with Honors.

Andrea Brand was there from 1981 to 1986, in which year she was awarded a Ph.

Andrea Brand then engaged in postdoctoral research work on yeast transcription at Harvard University, where from 1986 to 1988 she was a Helen Hay Whitney Fellow in the Department of Biochemistry, associated with the laboratory of Mark Ptashne.

Now the most highly cited paper in the Drosophila field, Andrea Brand had enormous difficulty in getting the paper published.

From 1999 to 2004, Andrea Brand served on the Scientific Advisory Board of the Promega Corporation in Madison, Wisconsin.

Andrea Brand serves on the editorial boards of BioMed Central Biology Image Library, Fly, and Neural Development.

Andrea Brand is a founding board member of the Rosalind Franklin Society, established in 2006, and since 2006 has been a member of the Evaluation Board of the Institute of Biochemistry at ETH in Zurich, Switzerland.

Andrea Brand was the chair of the jury that awarded the Royal Society Young People's Book Prize 2012 to Robert Winston's Science Experiments.

Andrea Brand was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, and a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences and a Member of the European Molecular Biology Organisation.

Andrea Brand was awarded the Royal Society Rosalind Franklin Award in 2006.

Andrea Brand was presented with the Special Award of Excellence at the Wellcome Biomedical Imaging Awards in 2001, the Hooke Medal of the British Society of Cell Biology in 2002, and the William Bate Hardy Prize in 2004.

Andrea Brand was elected a member of the European Molecular Biology Organization in 2000, a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences in 2003, and a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2010.

Andrea Brand's work, connecting molecular genetics to the development and repair of the nervous system, has been of a consistently high standard and is directly relevant to tackling human disease.

Andrea Brand is distinguished for her pioneering work on the development of the nervous system.

In earlier work Dr Andrea Brand characterised the first transcriptional silencer and originated the GAL4 system for targeted gene expression during development.

Andrea Brand later became a gymnast, serving as team captain at Oxford.