Kim Nasmyth

Kim Nasmyth

FRS FMedSci
Kim Nasmyth; FRS FMedSci
	Kim Nasmyth in October 2017
Born	Kim Ashley Nasmyth; 10 October 1952
Nationality	British
Education	Eton College
Alma mater	University of York (BSc); University of Edinburgh (PhD);
Known for	Cohesin
Spouse	Anna Dowson (m. 1982)
Children	Two
Awards	EMBO Member (1985); Wittgenstein-Preis (1999); Gairdner Foundation International Award (2007); Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine (1997); Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences (2018);
	Scientific career
Fields	molecular biology, gene regulation, cell cycle control
Institutions	University of Oxford; Research Institute of Molecular Pathology;
Thesis	DNA replication in Schizosaccharomyces pombe (1977)
Doctoral advisor	Murdoch Mitchison
Notable students	Anton Gartner; Angelika Amon; Andrea Brand;
Website	www.bioch.ox.ac.uk/research/nasmyth

Kim Ashley Nasmyth FRS FMedSci (born 18 October 1952) is an English geneticist, the Whitley Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Oxford, a Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford, former scientific director of the Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP), and former head of the Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford. He is best known for his work on the segregation of chromosomes during cell division.

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