John Tooze#
| Sadly, this member passed away. | |
| Membership Number: | 1372 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 1993 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED STATES |
John Tooze passed away May 19, 2021.
Positions Held
- 2014 Retired
- 2005 - 2013 Vice president for scientific and facility operations, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY
- 2003 - 2005 Director of research services, Cancer Research UK
- 2002 - 2003 Executive director of research integration and services, Cancer Research UK (formerly Imperial Cancer Research Fund)
- 1994 - 2002 ICRF director of support services, Imperial Cancer Research Fund
- 1993 - 1994 Acting director general, EMBL
- 1973 - 1994 Executive Secretary of the European Molecular Biology Organisation, Heidelberg, Germany
- 1968 - 1965 Lecturer at King's College London
- 1965 - 1967 Postdoc in Jim Watson’s laboratory at Harvard University
- 1965 Ph.D. in biophysics from the University of London
Fields of Scholarship
- Molecular biology
Honours and Awards
- 1986 Member and Executive secretary of European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
- 1982 Founder of the EMBO Journal
- 1986 EMBO Gold Medal
- 1994 Fellow of the Royal Society of London
- 2016 Doctor of Science, h.c., Watson School of Biological Sciences, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, New York
