Austin Gerard Smith

Austin Smith
Born Austin Gerard Smith
1960 (age 56–57)
Merseyside, United Kingdom [1]
Residence Cambridge, UK
Citizenship United Kingdom
Nationality United Kingdom
Fields Stem Cells
Institutions University of Cambridge
Alma mater University of Edinburgh
Thesis  (1986)
Doctoral advisor Martin Hooper
Notable awards Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine [2]
Website
www.stemcells.cam.ac.uk/researchers/principal-investigators/pressor-austin-smith[3]

Austin Gerard Smith (born 1960) is a professor in the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Cambridge and a Principal Investigator at the Wellcome Trust-Medical Research Council Cambridge Stem Cell Institute.[3] He is notable for his pioneering work on the biology of embryonic stem cells.[4][5]

Education

Austin Smith obtained his doctoral degree from the University of Edinburgh in 1986.[3]

Career and research

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.[3] In 1996, he was appointed director of the Centre, which became the Institute for Stem Cell Research under his leadership.[3] He remained as director of the Institute until his move to Cambridge in 2006.[6] Here, he became a director of the Welcome Trust Centre for Stem Cell Research [7] 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.[8]

In 2003, Smith was awarded an MRC Research Professorship[3] and elected to the Royal Society of Edinburgh.[9] And in 2006, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society.[10] 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.[11] [12]

References

  1. ↑
  2. 1 2 "2010 Louis-Jeantet prize for medicine | EurekAlert! Science News". Eurekalert.org. Retrieved 2017-06-25.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Professor Austin Smith — Wellcome Trust - Medical Research Council". Stemcells.cam.ac.uk. doi:10.1242/dev.142711. Retrieved 2017-06-25.
  4. ↑ "The Stars of Europe – Innovators: Austin Smith, Director, Centre for Genome Research". Businessweek. 17 June 2002. Archived from the original on 31 May 2008.
  5. ↑ "New Safer Way Developed To Reprogram Stem Cells". Science Daily. 3 March 2009.
  6. ↑ "Stage set for world-leading stem cell research centre". Wellcome Trust. Retrieved 5 September 2012.
  7. ↑ "Stage set for world-leading stem cell research centre | University of Cambridge". Cam.ac.uk. 2006-07-25. Retrieved 2017-06-25.
  8. ↑ "Cambridge Joins Harvard In Opening Stem-Cell Institute". Bloomberg News. 8 August 2012.
  9. ↑ "RSE Fellows as at 12/04/2011" (PDF). Royal Society of Edinburgh. Archived (PDF) from the original on 17 May 2011. Retrieved 26 April 2011.
  10. ↑ "Fellows". Royal Society. Archived from the original on 30 November 2010. Retrieved 4 December 2010.
  11. ↑ "Open letter to Senior Editors of peer-review journals publishing in the field of stem cell biology". Retrieved 5 September 2012.
  12. ↑ Ghosh, Pallab (2 February 2010). "Journal stem cell work 'blocked'". BBC News.


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