Prof. Grahame Hardie University of Dundee, UK

Grahame Hardie is Professor of Cellular Signaling at the University of Dundee, UK. He received his undergraduate training in biochemistry at University of Cambridge, and his Ph.D. from Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh. When he moved to Dundee in 1975 he began to study the regulation of fatty acid synthesis, which led... read moreto him describe the AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK) system. Dr. Hardie was the person who named the kinase and was responsible for establishing its role as a regulator of cellular energy balance.