Michael J. Gait Presented with 2017 OTS Lifetime Achievement Award!

Michael J. Gait obtained a Ph. D. in 1973 in Chemistry from the University of Birmingham UK. From 1973-75 he was Research Associate at M.I.T with H. Gobind Khorana working one gene synthesis. Since 1975 he has been a staff scientist at the Medical Research Council, Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK, becoming a MRC Programme Leader in 1994. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and was elected to EMBO in 2006.