Keith Burridge

Keith Burridge (born 1 July 1950) is a British researcher and Kenan distinguished Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

[8][9] He went as a postdoc to James D. Watson's laboratory at Cold Spring Harbor where he met Elias Lazarides.

[2] While developing a procedure to purify α-actinin from smooth muscle, Burridge co-purified another protein, vinculin,[2][3] independently of Benny Geiger's discovery.

[13] In 1981 Burridge left Cold Spring Harbor Lab for a faculty position at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he continued to work on focal adhesions.

[25] "The First Woman President" is a one-woman, one act play, that was premiered in the Midtown International Theatre Festival in New York City in 2016.