Nicholas Kester Tonks
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Nicholas K. Tonks FRS is a professor in Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
. His research is majorly focused on studying the function and regulation of protein tyrosine phosphatase
s.
He did his undergraduate in Biochemistry from the University of Oxford. After graduation, he joined Sir Philip Cohen
lab in University of Dundee
for his PhD study in protein phosphatase from 1982-1985.
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
The Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory is a private, non-profit institution with research programs focusing on cancer, neurobiology, plant genetics, genomics and bioinformatics. The Laboratory has a broad educational mission, including the recently established Watson School of Biological Sciences. It...
. His research is majorly focused on studying the function and regulation of protein tyrosine phosphatase
Protein tyrosine phosphatase
Protein tyrosine phosphatases are a group of enzymes that remove phosphate groups from phosphorylated tyrosine residues on proteins. Protein tyrosine phosphorylation is a common post-translational modification that can create novel recognition motifs for protein interactions and cellular...
s.
He did his undergraduate in Biochemistry from the University of Oxford. After graduation, he joined Sir Philip Cohen
Philip Cohen
Sir Philip Cohen FRS FRSE is a British researcher, academic and Royal Medal winner. During the 1990s he was Britain's third most cited professor and has been described by Professor Garry Taylor of the University of St Andrews as "one of the world’s top scientists"...
lab in University of Dundee
University of Dundee
The University of Dundee is a university based in the city and Royal burgh of Dundee on eastern coast of the central Lowlands of Scotland and with a small number of institutions elsewhere....
for his PhD study in protein phosphatase from 1982-1985.