Frances M. Brodsky
Frances Brodsky, Professor of Cell Biology in the Department of Structural & Molecular Biology at University College London, is an established member of the global cell biology community with research connections in immunology, genetics and structural biology from an interdisciplinary and international career. The Brodsky laboratory at UCL investigates the biochemistry, cell biology, and physiological functions of clathrin proteins.
Brodsky was a full professor at UCSF until 2014, when she joined University College London (UCL) as Director of the Division of Biosciences (2014-2020), where she continues to run her laboratory and teach. Prof Brodsky has served as a member and chair of numerous boards, study sections, and advisory committees for organisations such as the U.S. National Institutes of Health, the Human Frontiers Science Program, the Searle Scholars Program and the Pew Scholars Program.
She graduated from Harvard University with a degree in Biochemical Sciences in 1976, and earned her doctorate from Oxford University under a Marshall Scholarship in 1979. Brodsky's graduate work with immunologist Sir Walter Bodmer applied the then-novel technology of monoclonal antibodies to study human histocompatability molecules (HLA). Brodsky worked as a postdoctoral fellow, first with Jack Strominger at Harvard, and then with Peter Parham at Stanford University, initiating her research on clathrin biochemistry.