He had convictions for domestic abuse towards Ms Brown, who worked at Glasgow University's biochemistry department.

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The university's biochemistry department had about 25 researchers when Sir Philip, its current head, joined it 30 years ago.

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The research team led by Fatima Bosch, professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the UAB, studied the effects of a protein called IGF-I on the mice.

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Professor Ashok Venkitaraman and colleagues at the Hutchison Medical Research Council Centre in Cambridge, working with Dr. Luca Pellegrini and Professor Tom Blundell at the Cambridge University Department of Biochemistry, discovered that the BRCA2 gene controls a key molecule called Rad51.

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Lanphier, 52, studied biochemistry at Knox College and joined Eli Lilly's business planning department in the 1980s, then worked at a string of small biotechs.

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