!!Jim Smith - Curriculum vitae !Education *1981 Postdoctoral Fellow, Imperial Cancer Research Fund, London, UK *1979 Postdoctoral Fellow Harvard Medical School, Boston MA, USA *1979 PhD, Middlesex Hospital Medical School, London, UK !Career *2015 Director of Research at the Francis Crick Institute *2014 Deputy CEO and Chief of Strategy of the Medical Research Council *2009 Director of Medical Research Council National Institute for Medical Research, London, UK *2000 Director of the Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research UK Institute for Cancer and Developmental Biology (renamed the Gurdon Institute) *1984 Group Leader, then Head of Division and Head of Group, MRC-NIMR, London, UK