Michael Wakelam

Michael John Owen Wakelam (15 July 1955 – 31 March 2020) was a British molecular biologist, director of the Babraham Institute in Cambridge, England.

Michael Wakelam
Born1955
Died(2020-03-31)31 March 2020
NationalityBritish
Scientific career
Fieldsbiochemistry, lipidomics, signal transduction
InstitutionsBabraham Institute

Biography

Wakelam received a BSc in medical biochemistry (1977) and a PhD in biochemistry (1980) from the University of Birmingham. After post-doctoral training at the University of Konstanz (DE), he joined the Department of Biochemistry of Imperial College London in 1983. In 1985, he joined the Biochemistry department of the University of Glasgow as a Lecturer (1985), Senior Lecturer (1991) and Reader (1992). He became a Professor of molecular pharmacology at the University of Birmingham in 1993. In 2007, he became director of the Babraham Institute in Cambridge.[1]

Wakelam died on 31 March 2020 of a suspected COVID-19 infection.[2]

References
  1. "Michael Wakelam 1955 – 2020 | Babraham Institute". www.babraham.ac.uk. Retrieved 2 April 2020.
  2. Babraham Institute director Professor Michael Wakelam dies after suspected coronavirus infection


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