Andrea Brand

Andrea Brand

FRS FMedSci
Andrea Brand; FRS FMedSci
Born	Andrea Hilary Brand; March 9, 1959
Alma mater	University of Oxford (BA); University of Cambridge (PhD);
Known for	GAL4/UAS system
Awards	EMBO Member; William Bate Hardy Prize (2004); Rosalind Franklin Award (2005);
	Scientific career
Institutions	University of Cambridge; Laboratory of Molecular Biology; Gurdon Institute; Harvard University;
Thesis	Characterisation of a yeast silencer sequence (1986)
Website	www.gurdon.cam.ac.uk/research/brand

Andrea Hilary Brand (born March 9, 1959) FRS FMedSci is the Herchel Smith Professor of Molecular Biology and a Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge. She heads a lab investigating nervous system development at the Gurdon Institute and the Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience. She developed the GAL4/UAS system with Norbert Perrimon which has been described as “a fly geneticist's Swiss army knife”.

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