Kim Nasmyth

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Professor Kim Nasmyth FRS is the Whitley Professor of Biochemistry (Trinity College, Oxford) and the Head of the Department of Biochemistry of the University of Oxford. Professor Nasmyth was formerly the Director of the Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP) in Vienna, Austria. His research focuses on the fundamental questions of molecular biology, using a model eukaryote, a budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. He is a codiscoverer of cohesin, a protein complex crucial for faithful chromosome segregation during cell division [1].

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