Austin Smith | |
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Born | Austin Gerard Smith 1960 (age 64–65) Merseyside, UK [1] |
Alma mater | University of Edinburgh |
Awards | Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine (2010) [2] |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Stem Cells |
Institutions | University of Exeter |
Thesis | (1986) |
Doctoral advisor | Martin Hooper[ citation needed ] |
Website | www.exeter.ac.uk [3] |
Austin Gerard Smith (born 1960) is a professor at the University of Exeter and director of its Living Systems Institute. [3] He is notable for his pioneering work on the biology of embryonic stem cells. [4] [5]
Austin Smith obtained his doctoral degree from the University of Edinburgh in 1986. [6] [7]
He then carried out postdoctoral research at the University of Oxford, before joining the Centre for Genome Research at the University of Edinburgh as a group leader. [6] In 1996, he was appointed director of the centre, which became the Institute for Stem Cell Research under his leadership. [6] He remained as director of the Institute until his move to Cambridge in 2006. [8] Here, he became a director of the Welcome Trust Centre for Stem Cell Research [9] and later was the director of the new Wellcome Trust-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute at the University of Cambridge, which was established with 8 million pounds ($12.5 million) awarded by the Wellcome Trust and Medical Research Council (UK) in 2012. [10]
In 2019, he was appointed as the new Director of the University of Exeter's Living Systems Institute. [3]
In 2003, Smith was awarded an MRC Research Professorship [6] and elected to the Royal Society of Edinburgh. [11] And in 2006, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. [12] In 2010, he was co-recipient of the Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine along with French cardiologist Michel Haissaguerre. [2]
In February 2010, together with 13 other leading stem cell researchers, he wrote an open letter to journal editors to voice the opinion that obstructive reviews by a small number of researchers in the field were hindering publication of novel stem cell research. [13] [14]
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