Austin Smith#
| Membership Number: | 2771 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CELL & DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2010 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.bioc.cam.ac.uk/uto/smitha.html |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2007- Director, Wellcome Trust Centre for Stem Cell Research, University of Cambridge
- 2005- Professor, Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge
- 2003- Medical Research Council Professorial Fellow
- 2004-2005 Director Centre for Genome Research, then Institute of Stem Cell Research
- 2001-2006 Professor, University of Edinburgh
- 2004-2005 Director of MRC Centre Development in Stem Cell Biology
- 1995 Reader, University of Edinburgh
- 1990-1996 Group Leader, Centre for Genome Research, University of Edinburgh _
- 1987-1990 Postdoctoral Research Assistant, Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford
- 1986 Research Assistant, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford
Fields of Scholarship
- Stem Cell Biology
Honours and Awards
- 2010 Louis-Jantet Prize for Medicine
- 2006 Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of London
- 2004 Elected Member of the European Molecular Biology Organisation
- 2003 Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
- 2002 Ellison-Clife Medal, Royal Society of Medicine
- 2000 Pfizer Academic Award for "Pioneering work in the field of Stem Cell Science"
