Martin Raff
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Martin Charles Raff CBE FRS FMedSci (born 15 January 1938) is a Canadian biologist and researcher who is an Emeritus Professor at the MRC Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology (LMCB) at University College London (UCL).[1][2] He was professor at University College London 1979–2002, and as worked in the fields ranging from cellular immunology, Molecular Biology, Developmental Biology, Molecular Neuroscience to Autism.[3][4]
Early life
Born and educated in Montreal, Martin Raff did his B.Sc from McGill University in 1959, followed by M.D.C.M. in 1963, also from McGill University. [5]
Career
He started his career as a Resident in Neurology at Massachusetts General Hospital, however in 1969 he got interested in emerging field of cellular immunology, so he left medicine and joined the Avrion Mitchison's laboratory at National Institute for Medical Research, Mill Hill, London as Postdoctoral Fellow in Immunology (1968–1971). Thereafter he joined the Biology Department at University College London, becoming a Professor of Biology in 1979. Through his career here, he worked T and B lymphocytes, and later on developmental neurobiology, until his retirement in 2002. Post-retirement, when autism affected his close family, he started his research into the biological basis of autism, and has been a scientist at the MRC Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology, University College London.[6][1]
Awards
Professor Raff has received the following awards for his research:
- 1985: Fellowship of the Royal Society [5]
- 1989: Feldberg Prize given by Feldberg Foundation [7]
- 2001: Hamdan Award for Medical Research Excellence, awarded by Sheikh Hamdan bin Rashid Al Maktoum Award for Medical Sciences, United Arab Emirates
- 2003: Foreign Associate Member of the United States National Academy of Sciences[8]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Martin Raff". LMCB - MRC Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology. Retrieved 2014-09-20.
- ↑ "Thoughts of a retired scientist: an interview with Martin Raff". Disease Models & Mechanisms, vol. 5 no. 4 419-422. July 2012. Retrieved 2014-09-20.
- ↑ ‘RAFF, Prof. Martin Charles’, Who's Who 2013, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2013; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2012 ; online edn, Nov 2012 accessed 7 Nov 2013
- ↑ "Martin Raff - Scientist - I hated science when I was a child". Web of Stories. Retrieved 2014-09-20.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 "Martin Raff Profile". University College London. Retrieved 2014-09-20.
- ↑ "Q&A: What is autism? - A personal view". BioMed Central. 12 April 2010. Retrieved 2014-09-20.
- ↑ "Prizewinners of the Feldberg Foundation". Feldberg Foundation. Retrieved 2014-09-20.
- ↑ "Member: Martin Raff". United States National Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 2014-09-20.