| Birth Date: | 21 December 1953 |
| Birth Place: | Winterthur, Switzerland |
| Workplaces: | Laboratory of Molecular Biology |
| Alma Mater: | University of Zürich |
Mariann Bienz, Lady Pelham (born 21 December 1953, Winterthur) is a Swiss-British [1] molecular biologist based at the UK Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology. She has been a member of their Senior Scientific Staff since 1991,[2] was Joint-head of Cell Biology in 2007-08 and has been a Group Leader of Protein and Nucleic Acid Chemistry Division since 2008.[3]
She was educated at Gymnasium Winterthur and the University of Zürich where she studied Zoology and Molecular Biology and earned her PhD in 1981.[4]
Bienz subsequently undertook postdoctoral research at the LMB and in 1986 returned to Zürich as assistant professor, and then (1990) associate professor also serving as a member of EMBO in 1989.[5]
Married to biologist Sir Hugh Pelham since 1996.