User:Michael Overduin

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Michael Overduin is the Professor of Structural Biology at the University of Birmingham and has led a research group studying protein biochemistry at the Division of Cancer Studies since 2003. He also serves as the Executive Director of the Henry Wellcome Building for Biomolecular NMR Spectroscopy, a national scientific facility funded by the Wellcome Trust, and is the Honorary Secretary of the Lunar Society. Michael graduated with a BSc in Biology from Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada in 1988. He received his PhD from The Rockefeller University in 1993, then worked at the University of Toronto before joining the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center for eight years. Among his awards are a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award (2004), Pew Scholar in the Biomedical Sciences Award (1998) and Basil O'Connor Award (1998).