Gregory Winter
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| Born | Gregory Paul Winter 14 April 1951 |
| Residence | Cambridge, UK |
| Fields | Biochemistry |
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| Alma mater | Trinity College, Cambridge |
| Thesis | The amino acid sequence of tryptophanyl tRNA synthetase from Bacillus stearothermophilus (1977) |
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Sir Gregory Paul Winter CBE FRS FMedSci (born 14 April 1951) is a British biochemist, a pioneer of therapeutic monoclonal antibodies. He invented techniques to both humanise (1986) and, later, to fully humanise using phage display, antibodies for therapeutic uses. Previously, antibodies had been derived from mice, which made them difficult to use in human therapeutics because the human immune system had anti-mouse reactions to them.
He is a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge and was installed as the Master of Trinity on 2 October 2012. He was previously Deputy Director of the Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Medical Research Council, and Head of the Division of Protein and Nucleic Acids Chemistry.
Winter was educated at the Royal Grammar School, Newcastle. He went on to study Natural Sciences at the University of Cambridge graduating from Trinity College, Cambridge in 1973. He was awarded a PhD for research on the amino acid sequence of tryptophanyl tRNA synthetase from the bacterium Bacillus stearothermophilus in 1977.
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