Mariann Bienz

Mariann Bienz FRS FMedSci is a distinguished molecular biologist based at the UK Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology. She has been a member of their Senior Scientific Staff since 1991,[2] was Joint-head of Cell Biology in 2007/8 and has been a Group Leader of Protein and Nucleic Acid Chemistry Division since 2008.[3][4]

Mariann Bienz
Alma materUniversity of Zurich
Spouse(s)
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(m. 1996)​
Awards
Scientific career
InstitutionsLaboratory of Molecular Biology
Websitewww2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/group-leaders/a-to-g/mariann-bienz/

Education

She was educated at Gymnasium Winterthur and the University of Zürich where she studied Zoology and Molecular Biology and earned her PhD in 1981.

Career and research

Bienz subsequently undertook postdoctoral research at the LMB and in 1986 returned to Zurich as Assistant Professor, and then (1990) Associate Professor also serving as a member of EMBO in 1989.[5]

Personal life

She lists her recreations in Who's Who as music and mountain walking.[6]

Awards and honours
  • Elected as a member of EMBO, 1989[7]
  • Friedrich Miescher Prize, Swiss Biochemical Soc., 1990
  • Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2003[1]
  • Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences, 2006

References
  1. "Dr Mariann Bienz FMedSci FRS". London: Royal Society. Archived from the original on 2015-11-17.
  2. Staff. "The Academy of Medical sciences: Fellows: Dr Mariann Bienz FRS FMedSci". Academy of Medical Sciences. Archived from the original on 20 August 2011. Retrieved 21 October 2012.
  3. "Protein and Nucleic Acid Chemistry Division".
  4. "Mariann Bienze Curriculum Vitae" (PDF). Retrieved 8 June 2019.
  5. Staff. "Dr Mariann Bienz Authorised Biography – Debrett's People of Today, Dr Mariann Bienz Profile". Debrett's. Retrieved 21 October 2012.
  6. "BIENZ, Dr Mariann, (Lady Pelham)". Who's Who. ukwhoswho.com. 2015 (online Oxford University Press ed.). A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc. (subscription or UK public library membership required) (subscription required)
  7. Bienz, M (2006). "Bio-sketch for Oncogene Review Issue on Wnt signalling". Oncogene. 25 (57): 7441. doi:10.1038/sj.onc.1210062. ISSN 0950-9232. PMID 17143287.


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