Caroline Hill#
| Membership Number: | 3587 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2013 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.crick.ac.uk/research/a-z-researchers/researchers-d-h/caroline-hill |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2015-present Senior Group Leader. Head of the Laboratory of Developmental Signalling, Francis Crick Institute
- 2002-2015 Senior Group Leader. Head of the Laboratory of Developmental Signalling, Cancer Research UK London Research Institute
- 1998-2002 Tenure Track Group Leader. Head of the Laboratory of Developmental Signalling, Cancer Research UK London Research Institute
- 1995-1998 Head of the Laboratory of Transcriptional Regulation at the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, UCL Branch, London, and holder of a Royal Society University Research Fellowship
- 1991-1995 Postdoctoral Fellow. Imperial Cancer Research Fund, London, UK. Advisor: Dr Richard Treisman
- 1989-1991 Postdoctoral Fellow. Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge. Advisor, Prof Dame Jean Thomas
- 1985-1989 PhD Student. Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge. Advisor, Prof Dame Jean Thomas
Fields of Scholarship
- Mechanism of TGF-β signalling through the Smad pathway
- Computational modelling of the TGF-β/Smad pathway
- Regulation of transcription in response to TGF-β signalling
- Role of E3 ubiquitin ligases in TGF-β signalling
- Role of deregulated TGF-β signalling in cancer
- Regulation, mechanism and function of BMP signalling in early zebrafish embryos
- Regulation, mechanism and function of Activin/Nodal signalling in early Xenopus development
Honours and Awards
- 1995-1998 Royal Society University Research Fellowship
- 2002 Elected member of EMBO
- 2005-2009 Coordinator of European Commission Research Training Network “Molecular mechanisms of epithelial plasticity and its involvement in carcinoma progression”
- 2013 Elected Member of the Academia Europaea
- 2015 Elected Fellow of the European Academy of Cancer Sciences
