Professor Peter Parker receives fellowship

Professor Peter Parker, an eminent member of the CBC, has been given an honour that is regarded as the highest accolade a scientist can receive next to a nobel prize, by being elected as a fellow of the Royal Society.

Professor Peter Parker, an eminent member of the CBC, has been given an honour that is regarded as the highest accolade a scientist can receive next to a nobel prize, by being elected as a fellow of the Royal Society. He is one of forty four new fellows that are elected every year to the Society as recognition for their exceptional contribution to science, engineering and medicine.

He will be following in the footsteps of scientists such as Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, Stephen Hawking, David Attenborough and Tim Berners-Lee

Peter Parker has been recognised for his major contribution to our understanding of the enzymology of signal transduction cascades which link changes in external events to alterations in cellular behaviour. He was the first to purify, clone and characterize Protein Kinase C and show that it was a tumour promoter receptor.

All at the CBC would like to offer up their most sincerest congratulations.

For more information on Peter Parker and his research, please visit his research page

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