Stephen Oliver (scientist)

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Stephen George Oliver FMedSci (born 3 November 1949) is an Emeritus Professor in the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Cambridge,^[6][7] and a Fellow of Wolfson College, Cambridge.^[3][8]

Steve Oliver FMedSci
Born	Stephen George Oliver (1949-11-03) 3 November 1949 (age 75)[1]
Alma mater	University of Bristol
Known for	Robot Scientist[2] Systems Biology
Awards	EMBO member (2004) FAAAS (2008)
Scientific career
Institutions	University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology University of Cambridge University of Kent[3] University of Manchester[4] University of California, Irvine[1][5] National Institute for Medical Research[1]
Thesis	The role of RNA in the maintenance of mitochondrial DNA in the yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae. (1975)
Website	www.bioc.cam.ac.uk/research/oliver

Education

Oliver was educated at the University of Bristol gaining a Bachelor of Science degree in Microbiology in 1971 followed by a PhD from the National Institute for Medical Research (NIMR) in 1974.^[9]

Research

Oliver's areas of research include functional genomics, systems biology^[10][11][12] and drug discovery^{[13][14][15][16][17][18]} using the model organism Saccharomyces cerevisiae^[19] which he has worked on since the 1970s.^[20] In 1992, whilst working at UMIST, Oliver led the team which provided first complete sequence analysis of an entire chromosome from any organism.^[21] More recently he has also been involved in the creation of a Robot Scientist^[2][22] and has been awarded research funding as principal investigator or co-investigator with a total value of over £26 million by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC).^[23]