Andrea Brand

Andrea Brand
FRS FMedSci
Andrea Brand FRS FMedSci
Born	Andrea Hilary Brand; March 9, 1959
Alma mater	University of Oxford (BA); University of Cambridge (PhD);
Known for	GAL4/UAS system
Awards	EMBO Member; William Bate Hardy Prize (2004); Rosalind Franklin Award (2005);
	Scientific career
Institutions	University of Cambridge; Laboratory of Molecular Biology; Gurdon Institute; Harvard University;
Thesis	Characterisation of a yeast silencer sequence (1986)
Website	www.gurdon.cam.ac.uk/research/brand

Andrea Hilary Brand (born March 9, 1959) is the Herchel Smith Professor of Molecular Biology and a Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge. She heads a lab investigating nervous system development at the Gurdon Institute and the Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience. She developed the GAL4/UAS system with Norbert Perrimon which has been described as “a fly geneticist's Swiss army knife”.

Andrea Brand FRS FMedSci
Born	Andrea Hilary Brand (1959-03-09) March 9, 1959
Alma mater	University of Oxford (BA) University of Cambridge (PhD)
Known for	GAL4/UAS system
Awards	EMBO Member William Bate Hardy Prize (2004) Rosalind Franklin Award (2005)
Scientific career
Institutions	University of Cambridge Laboratory of Molecular Biology Gurdon Institute Harvard University
Thesis	Characterisation of a yeast silencer sequence (1986)

Website	www.gurdon.cam.ac.uk/research/brand