1. Gregory Winter is a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge and was appointed Master of Trinity College, Cambridge on 2 October 2012, remaining in office until 2019.
16 Facts About Gregory Winter
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Gregory Winter was Deputy Director of the MRC Centre for Protein Engineering from 1990 to its closure in 2010.
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Gregory Winter went on to study Natural Sciences at the University of Cambridge graduating from Trinity College, Cambridge in 1973.
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Gregory Winter was awarded a PhD degree, from the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, for research on the amino acid sequence of tryptophanyl tRNA synthetase from the bacterium Bacillus stearothermophilus in 1977 supervised by Brian S Hartley.
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Later, Gregory Winter completed a term of post-doctoral fellowship at Imperial College London, and another at the Institute of genetics in University of Cambridge.
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Gregory Winter continued to specialise in protein and nucleic acid sequencing and became a Group Leader at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in 1981.
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Gregory Winter became interested in the idea that all antibodies have the same basic structure, with only small changes making them specific for one target.
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Gregory Winter worked on the Scientific Advisory Board of Covagen, and is the chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board for Biosceptre International Limited.
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In 1989, Gregory Winter was a founder of Cambridge Antibody Technology, one of the early commercial biotech companies involved in antibody engineering.
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In 2000, Gregory Winter founded Domantis to pioneer the use of domain antibodies, which use only the active portion of a full-sized antibody.
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In 1995, Winter won several international awards including the King Faisal International Prize for Medicine and in 1999, the Cancer Research Institute William B Coley Award.
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Gregory Winter was formerly the Joint Head of the Division of Protein and Nucleic acid Chemistry-Biotechnology, and was Deputy Director, at the Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, an institution funded by the UK Medical Research Council.
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Gregory Winter was Deputy Director of the MRC's Centre for Protein Engineering until its absorption into the Laboratory of Molecular Biology.
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Gregory Winter is a member of the Advisory Council for the Campaign for Science and Engineering.
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Gregory Winter was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1997 and Knight Bachelor in 2004.
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Gregory Winter served as Master of Trinity College, Cambridge from 2012 to 2019.