Sydney Brenner

Sydney Brenner was born in 1927 in South africa, where he attended medical school. he obtained his DPhil from Oxford University, UK, and spent most of his professional career at the Laboratory of Molecular Biology at Cambridge University, UK, working with the late Francis Crick for much of that time. Brenner won the nobel Prize in 2002 for establishing Caenorhabditis elegans as the widely used experimental model it is today. he presently divides his time between Cambridge, the Salk institute, Singapore, Japan and the howard hughes Medical institute Janelia Farm campus, conducting research in neurobiology and comparative genomics and mentoring young investigators.