Frank Uhlmann

Frank Uhlmann
Frank Uhlmann in 2015, portrait via the Royal Society
Fields	Cell cycle Biochemistry Chromosome segregation
Institutions	Francis Crick Institute Cancer Research UK London Research Institute Research Institute of Molecular Pathology
Alma mater	University of Tübingen (PhD)
Thesis	Reconstitution and characterization of human replication factor C (1997)
Notable awards	FRS (2015) EMBO member (2006) EMBO Gold Medal (2006)
Website www.crick.ac.uk/research/a-z-researchers/researchers-t-u/frank-uhlmann

Frank Uhlmann FRS is a group leader at the Francis Crick Institute in London.

Uhlmann was educated at the University of Tübingen where he was awarded a PhD in 1997. During his PhD, he worked with Jerard Hurwitz at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City.

Following his PhD, Uhlmann moved to the Research Institute of Molecular Pathology in Vienna for postdoctoral research with Kim Nasmyth. In 2000, he established a laboratory at the Imperial Cancer Research Fund (now Cancer Research UK) in London, which ultimately became part of the Francis Crick Institute.

Uhlmann was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2015. His certificate of election reads:

In 2006, Uhlmann was also elected a member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) and awarded the EMBO Gold Medal.