[5][6] Pines was educated at the University of Cambridge where he was awarded a PhD in 1987 for research on cyclin in sea urchin eggs[7] supervised by Tim Hunt.

Pines work has provided insights into how chromosome behaviour in mitosis controls both the time and the rate at which essential mitotic regulators are destroyed, and these discoveries have wider implications for how cancers develop.

Pines was elected a member of the European Molecular Biology Organisation (EMBO) in 2001[1] and a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences (FMedSci) in 2005.

His citation on election reads: He has made key discoveries in the cell cycle field, many of which have opened up new avenues of research.

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