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Kim Ashley Nasmyth FRS is the Whitley Professor of Biochemistry. Nasmyth was formerly the Director of the Research Institute of Molecular Pathology in Vienna, Austria and former Head of the Department of Biochemistry of the University of Oxford. His research focuses on the fundamental questions of molecular biology, using Saccharomyces cerevisiae as a model organism. He is a codiscoverer of cohesin, a protein complex crucial for faithful chromosome segregation during cell division. He is a member of the Advisory Council for the Campaign for Science and Engineering. In the year 1999 he won the Wittgenstein-Preis.
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