Michael Neuberger

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Michael Samuel Neuberger (born 2 November 1953) is a British biochemist and immunologist.

He was educated at Westminster School, then moving on to read Natural Sciences at Trinity College, Cambridge (scholar, MA) and obtaining a PhD at Imperial College, London.

He has been a fellow of, and director of studies at Trinity College since 1985 and Professor of molecular immunology there since 2002. He supervises students reading the Natural Sciences Tripos in the fields of cell biology and biochemistry.

He is also joint head of the Protein and Nucleic Acid Chemistry division at the Medical Research Council's Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, UK, alongside Sir Greg Winter.

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1993 and was awarded their GlaxoSmithKline Prize in 2003. He also received the Novartis medal in 2002 and delivered the Novartis medal lecture, entitled "Antibodies: a Paradigm for the Evolution of Molecular Recognition" on April 9, 2002 at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh.

He is the son of Prof. Albert Neuberger, the brother of Prof. James Neuberger, Prof. Anthony Neuberger, and Lord Justice Sir David Neuberger, and the brother-in-law of Julia Neuberger.