The Discovery of Cell Division
Lecturer: Tim Hunt
Professor Tim Hunt is a Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine, a Fellow of the Royal Society, a Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the European Academy of Sciences, and a Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences. From 1991 to 2011, he served as the Chief Scientist at the Clare Hall Laboratory of Cancer Research UK, and since 2011, he has been an Honorary Scientist at the Francis Crick Institute in London. From 2016 to 2022, he was a Visiting Scientist at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology.
Professor Tim Hunt is primarily engaged in the study of cell cycle regulation. For his discovery of key regulatory factors in the cell cycle, he was jointly awarded the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine , along with Lee Hartwell and Paul Nurse.
Lecture Time: 10:00 AM – 12:00 AM, 14 May (Wednesday), 2025
Venue: Academic Auditorium, Medical Science and Technology Innovation Center, Nanchang University
Organizers: Academic Committee of Nanchang University, Jiangxi Medical College of Nanchang University, School of Life Sciences of Nanchang University, Queen Mary School of Nanchang University