Researchers

Medicine / ELLIS, REGINALD JOHN

jellis

Position

Emeritus Professor of Biological Sciences
Department of Biological Sciences
University of Warwick
COVENTRY CV4 7AL
U. K.

Research interests

His research into specialised proteins helped to establish a new scientific model recognising conditions such as Alzheimer’s Disease and cystic fibrosis as ‘protein folding disorders’.

Prizes and awards

2004 Gairdner Foundation International Award for world-class achievements in medical research.

Publications

RJ Ellis (2003). Plugging the transport gap. Nature 421, 801-802.

RJ Ellis, A P Minton (2003). Join the crowd. Nature 425, 27-28.

RJ Ellis (2002). Molecular chaperones. Encyclopedia of Molecular Medicine 1, 735-737.

RJ Ellis, TJT Pinheiro (2002). Danger - misfolding proteins. Nature 416, 483-484.

RJ Ellis (2001). Inside and outside the Anfinsen cage. Curr.Biol. 11, 1038-1040.

RJ Ellis (2001). Macromolecular crowding: obvious but underappreciated. Trends Biochem.Sci 26, 597-604.

RJ Ellis (2001). Macromolecular crowding: an important but neglected aspect of the intracellular environment . Curr. Opin. Structur.Biol. 11, 114-119.

RJ Ellis, CM Dobson, AR Fersht. Protein misfolding and disease. The Royal Society, 2001.