Tim Mitchison

Tim Mitchison
Born
Timothy John Mitchison

1958 (age 6667)
EducationHaberdashers' Aske's Boys' School
Alma materUniversity of Oxford (BA)
University of California, San Francisco (PhD)
SpouseChristine M. Field
AwardsHaldane Lecture (2002)
Keith R. Porter Lecture (2013)
Scientific career
FieldsSystems biology
InstitutionsHarvard Medical School
National Institute for Medical Research
Marine Biological Laboratory
ThesisStructure and Dynamics of Organized Microtubule Arrays (1984)
Doctoral advisorMarc Kirschner
Notable studentsTony Hyman
Julie Theriot
Jason Swedlow
Inke Nathke
Katharina Ribbeck
Websitemitchison.hms.harvard.edu/people/timothy-mitchison

Timothy John Mitchison FRS is a cell biologist and systems biologist and Hasib Sabbagh Professor of Systems Biology at Harvard Medical School in the United States. He is known for his discovery, with Marc Kirschner, of dynamic instability in microtubules, for studies of the mechanism of cell division, and for contributions to chemical biology.