Ramanujan Hegde
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| Born | Ramanujan Shankar Hegde |
| Fields | Biochemistry |
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| Thesis | The regulation of protein translocation at the endoplasmic reticulum (1998) |
| Doctoral advisor | Vishwanath R. Lingappa[2] |
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Ramanujan Shankar Hegde FRS[3] is a Group Leader in the Medical Research Council (MRC) Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB) at the University of Cambridge.[4]
Education
Hegde was educated at the University of Chicago[1] and the University of California, San Francisco where he was awarded a PhD in 1998 for research on protein targeting in the endoplasmic reticulum supervised by Vishwanath R. Lingappa.[2][1]
Research
Hegde's research investigates how proteins are localised correctly inside cells, and how errors during protein maturation are recognised and disposed. These processes are important because the accumulation of abnormal proteins is disruptive to cell function, and underlies numerous diseases.[3]
His laboratory have discovered a widely conserved signalling pathway needed by a subset of proteins to reach their correct membrane-embedded destination. Their studies of such protein targeting pathways are revealing how membrane proteins are accurately recognised by the machinery responsible for their proper localisation and insertion. Manu’s work has also shown that even modest failures of individual proteins to reach their correct cellular location can lead to neurodegeneration, and that cells have specialized pathways to identify these wayward proteins and target them for destruction.[3]
As of 2016[update], according to Google Scholar his most cited research has been published in Science[5] and Nature.[6] His research has been funded by the Medical Research Council.[7]
Awards and honours
Hegde was awarded the R.R. Bensley award in Cell Biology in 2008 and elected a member of the European Molecular Biology Organisation (EMBO) in 2013.[3] He was also elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2016.[3]
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