Piers Nash
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Piers David Nash | |
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 Piers Nash | |
| Born | Exeter, England |
| Alma mater | University of Alberta University of Guelph Booth School of Business |
| Known for | Cellular signal transduction |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Biochemistry, cell biology |
| Institutions | University of Chicago |
| Doctoral advisor | Grant McFadden |
Piers David Nash is a writer, entrepreneur, cancer biology professor, data evangelist and technology futurist. He is a pioneer in the field of emergent properties of complex biological systems, particularly for his work on integrative all-or-none switches at a cellular level. He was the founder of Sympatic,[1] and the son of academic Roger Nash.
Born in Exeter, England, and grew up in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada. In high school he competed in the Canada-Wide Science Fair in five successive years (1983–87), winning awards[2] on each occasion and becoming one of the most highly awarded science fair participants in the history of the fair. In recognition of this he was selected to represent Canada as one of two youth delegates to the 1985 Nobel Prize lectures and ceremony in Stockholm, Sweden as part of the Stockholm International Youth Science Seminar[3] and was awarded the International Youth Year Ontario Gold Medal. He received a BSc with honours in biochemistry from the University of Guelph, and the Chemical Institute of Canada prize for the top of class and President's Scholarship.[4] He received a PhD in 1999 from the University of Alberta working in the laboratory of Dr. Grant McFadden investigating poxviral immunomodulatory proteins. His doctoral thesis focused on the enzymology and biological properties of the Myxoma virus encoded serine proteinase inhibitor (serpin), SERP-1.[5] He completed postdoctoral research with Anthony Pawson at the Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute of Mount Sinai Hospital and the University of Toronto from June 1999 to December 2003.[6] In 2014, Nash received an MBA with a concentration in finance awarded with high honors from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.[7]
