Nick Hoogenraad
Australian biochemist
Nick Hoogenraad, is an Australian biochemist. He is currently Emeritus Professor of Biochemistry at La Trobe University. Hoogenraad's work led to the discovery of the mitochondrial unfolded protein response.
Hoogenraad was born in The Hague to Ton and Lique Hoogenraad, and was one of six children. Hoogenraad completed a bachelor of agricultural science, by the end of which time he had "fallen in love with biochemistry", partly due to reading The Origin of Life by Soviet biochemist Alexander Oparin. He completed his Ph.D. under agricultural biochemist Frank Hird, using biochemical and electron microscopy techniques to compile the first atlas of the bacteria in the rumen of sheep. Working with the rumen bacteria was unpleasant and another member of Hird's lab, Max Marginson, started calling Hoogenraad "rumencrud" in allusion to this. This behaviour stopped after Hoogenraad placed some foul-smelling butyric acid on Marginson's jacket.
He began work as a postdoctoral researcher in the Pediatric department at Stanford University in 1969, becoming assistant professor in Human Biology in 1971, and returning for a year as visiting professor in 1979. He returned to Australia in 1974 after being hired by Bruce Stone to join the new department of Biochemistry at La Trobe University.
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