Austin Smith | |
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Born | Austin Gerard Smith 1960 (age 63–64) Merseyside, UK[2] |
Alma mater | University of Edinburgh |
Awards | Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine (2010) [1] |
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]
Education
[edit]Austin Smith obtained his doctoral degree from the University of Edinburgh in 1986.[6][7]
Career and research
[edit]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.[1]
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]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "2010 Louis-Jeantet prize for medicine | EurekAlert! Science News". Eurekalert.org. Retrieved 25 June 2017.
- ^ Austin SMITH Winner of the 2010 Louis-Jeantet Prize for medicine
- ^ a b c "Professor Austin Smith FRS, Exeter".
- ^ "The Stars of Europe – Innovators: Austin Smith, Director, Centre for Genome Research". Businessweek. 17 June 2002. Archived from the original on 31 May 2008.
- ^ "New Safer Way Developed To Reprogram Stem Cells". Science Daily. 3 March 2009.
- ^ a b c d Kalkan, Tüzer; Olova, Nelly; Roode, Mila; Mulas, Carla; Lee, Heather J.; Nett, Isabelle; Marks, Hendrik; Walker, Rachael; Stunnenberg, Hendrik G.; Lilley, Kathryn S.; Nichols, Jennifer; Reik, Wolf; Bertone, Paul; Smith, Austin (1 April 2017). "Tracking the embryonic stem cell transition from ground state pluripotency". Development. 144 (7). The Company of Biologists: 1221–1234. doi:10.1242/dev.142711. ISSN 1477-9129. PMC 5399622. PMID 28174249.
- ^ Gerard, Smith, Austin (1986). "Genetic analysis of embryonal carcinoma cells". hdl:1842/20194.
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(help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ "Stage set for world-leading stem cell research centre". Wellcome Trust. Archived from the original on 20 March 2012. Retrieved 5 September 2012.
- ^ "Stage set for world-leading stem cell research centre | University of Cambridge". Cam.ac.uk. 25 July 2006. Retrieved 25 June 2017.
- ^ "Cambridge Joins Harvard In Opening Stem-Cell Institute". Bloomberg News. 8 August 2012.
- ^ "RSE Fellows as at 12/04/2011" (PDF). Royal Society of Edinburgh. Archived from the original (PDF) on 17 May 2011. Retrieved 26 April 2011.
- ^ "Fellows". Royal Society. Archived from the original on 30 November 2010. Retrieved 4 December 2010.
- ^ "Open letter to Senior Editors of peer-review journals publishing in the field of stem cell biology". Retrieved 5 September 2012.
- ^ Ghosh, Pallab (2 February 2010). "Journal stem cell work 'blocked'". BBC News.