Jeremy Patrick Brockes FRS (born 29 February 1948) is a British biochemist who worked as an MRC Research Professor at University College London until 2016.
He attended Winchester College,[3] and then earned a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Cambridge (1969) and a PhD in molecular biology from the University of Edinburgh (1972), where he studied in the laboratory of the late Kenneth Murray and Noreen Murray.
He did post-doctoral research at Harvard Medical School with Zach Hall, and at University College London with Martin Raff.
He investigated cellular interactions in the mammalian peripheral nervous system, and the mechanisms underlying limb regeneration in salamanders.
[4] His work on the PNS yielded a method for purification and culture of rodent Schwann cells.