page_title: UEA School of Biological Sciences
section_title: Notable alumni
hierarchical_section_title: UEA School of Biological Sciences / Notable alumni
caption_attribution_description: English: Michael Houghton
context_page_description: The School of Biological Sciences is a research-led academic community at the University of East Anglia. It works with partners in industry on a range of activities, including translating research discoveries into products, making knowledge and research expertise available through consultancies, contract research and provision of analytical services, as well as partnering industry in training both undergraduate and postgraduate students.
context_section_description: James Barber FRS, Professor of Biochemistry at Imperial College London
  Nick Barton FRS, Darwin Medal, Darwin–Wallace Medal and Erwin Schrödinger Prize winning evolutionary biologist
  Sir John Beringer, Professor at the University of Bristol
  Mervyn Bibb FRS, Molecular microbiologist
  Robert Boutilier, Lecturer in Zoology at the University of Cambridge
  Dennis Brown, Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School
  Karen Duff, Potamkin Prize winning pathologist and Professor of Pathology and Cell Biology at Columbia University
  Audrey Elkington, Archdeacon of Bodmin
  Richard Flavell FRS, Director of the John Innes Centre
  Daphrose Gahakwa, Rwandan Education Minister
  Sarah Gilbert, Professor of Vaccinology at the University of Oxford
  Don Grierson FRS, Professor at the University of Nottingham
  Brian Hemmings FRS, Cloëtta Prize winning biochemist
  Michael Houghton, Robert Koch Prize, Lasker Award and Gairdner Foundation International Award winning co-discoverer of Hepatitis C and of the Hepatitis D genome
  Jad Isaac, Director General of the Applied Research Institute–Jerusalem
  David Jones, Flavelle Medal winning biologist
  Jon Owen Jones, Labour Member of Parliament
  Eddie Mbadiwe, Member of the Nigerian House of Representatives
  Nicholas Mills, Professor at the University of California, Berkeley
  Richard Nichols, Professor of Evolutionary Genetics at Queen Mary University of London
  Sir Paul Nurse PRS, 2001 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate and President of the Royal Society
  Giles Oldroyd, plant scientist
  Rolph Payet, Seychellois Cabinet Minister
  Terence Rabbitts FRS, Colworth Medal winning molecular biologist
  Richard Sandbrook, Director of the International Institute for Environment and Development
  Össur Skarphéðinsson, Icelandic Foreign Minister
  Alexander Smith, CEO of Pier 1 Imports
  Nick Talbot FRS, Professor at the University of Exeter
  Simon Thrush, Director of the Institute of Marine Science at the University of Auckland
  Amarilis de Varennes, President of the Instituto Superior de Agronomia
  Paul Wellings, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Wollongong and the University of Lancaster
  Christopher Wood, Miroslaw Romanowski Medal winning biologist
caption: Co-discoverer of Hepatitis C and of the Hepatitis D genome Michael Houghton
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