Nick Lane

For the 17th century cartographer, see Nicholas Lane (cartographer).
Nicholas James Lane
Born 1967
Residence London
Nationality British
Fields Biochemistry, chemiosmosis
Institutions University College London
Alma mater Imperial College, Royal Free Hospital Medical School
Thesis In vivo studies of ischaemia-reperfusion injury in hypothermically stored rabbit renal autograft (1995)
Known for Science writing
Notable awards Biochemical Society Award (2015)
Spouse Ana Hidalgo-Simon
Website
www.nick-lane.net

Nick Lane (born 1967) is a British biochemist and writer. He works as a researcher and lecturer in evolutionary biochemistry at University College London. He has published four books which have won several awards.

Career

Educated at Imperial College, London, he earned his PhD at the Royal Free Hospital Medical School in 1995 with a thesis entitled In vivo studies of ischaemia-reperfusion injury in hypothermically stored rabbit renal autograft. He then worked as Medical Writer at Oxford Clinical Communications for a year before joining Medi Cine International a medical multimedia company, also as a writer. In 1999 he became strategic director at what was, by then, Adelphi Medi Cine, a post he held until 2002.[1]

He became an Honorary Researcher at University College London in 1997, has held the post of Honorary Reader since 2006 and was the first Provost's Venture Research Fellow there 20092012. Since October 2013 he has been Reader in Evolutionary Biochemistry in the Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment at UCL.[1][2] He is the author of popular science books and many articles and is the winner of the 2015 Biochemical Society Award.[3]

Publications

His book, Life Ascending: The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution, won the 2010 Royal Society Prize for Science Books.[4] He appeared on In Our Time on Radio Four on September 13, 2012, when the topic of discussion was the cell, and again on 15 May 2014, when the topic was photosynthesis.[5]

Books

Selected articles

References

  1. 1 2 Lane, Nick. "Nick Lane CV". Retrieved 2 April 2015.
  2. "UCL Provost's Venture Prize". University College London. Retrieved 2 April 2015.
  3. "The Biochemical Society Award | Biochemistry Society". Biochemical Society. Retrieved 2 April 2015.
  4. "Life Ascending rises to the top". Royal Society. Retrieved 2011-07-25.
  5. "Photosynthesis". BBC. Retrieved 16 May 2014.

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