MARK BRETSCHER (1940- ), biological scientist and Fellow of the Royal Society

Mark Bretscher joined Abingdon School in 1951 and entered Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge in 1958. He was visiting professor in biochemistry and molecular biology at Harvard Univesity (1974-75) and Eleanor Roosevelt Cancer Society Fellow and visiting professor, Stanford University (1984-85). He was head of the cell biology division, MRC laboratory of molecular biology at Cambridge University and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1985.