Professor Sir John Walker FRS (Chair)
Professor Sir John Walker is the Director of the Medical Research Council’s (MRC) Dunn Human Nutrition Unit in Cambridge. He is the Chairman of the MIB Scientific Advisory Board.
He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1997, together with Professor Paul Boyer, for their elucidation of the enzymatic mechanism underlying the synthesis of adenosine triphosphate.
His award winning work, which provided insight into the way that life forms produce energy, was conducted at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, in Cambridge, which he joined in 1974.
Professor Walker is a Fellow of the Royal Society, and a foreign member of the US National Academy of Sciences, of L’Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei and of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is a Fellow of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, and an Honorary Fellow of St Catherine’s College, Oxford. He was knighted in 1999 for his services to molecular biology. He has received honorary doctorates of science from numerous universities, including UMIST.