Michael Wakelam


Michael John Owen Wakelam was a British molecular biologist, director of the Babraham Institute in Cambridge, England.

Biography

Wakelam received a BSc in medical biochemistry and a PhD in biochemistry from the University of Birmingham. After post-doctoral training at the University of Konstanz, he joined the Department of Biochemistry of Imperial College London in 1983. In 1985, he joined the Biochemistry department of the University of Glasgow as a Lecturer, Senior Lecturer and Reader. He became a Professor of molecular pharmacology at the University of Birmingham in 1993. In 2007, he became director of the Babraham Institute in Cambridge.
Wakelam died on 31 March 2020 of a suspected COVID-19 infection.