Geoffrey Smith | |
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Born | [1] | 23 July 1955
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Thesis | Replication of the influenze virus genome (1981) |
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Geoffrey Lilley Smith (born 1955) [1] FRS FMedSci FRSB [2] [3] is a British virologist and medical research authority in the area of Vaccinia virus and the family of Poxviruses. [4] Since 1 October 2011 he is head of the Department of Pathology at the University of Cambridge [3] [5] and a principal research fellow of the Wellcome Trust. [6] Before that, he was head of the Department of Virology at Imperial College London. [7] [8]
Smith was educated at the Bootham School [1] in York and completed his bachelor's degree at the University of Leeds in 1977. In 1981 he was awarded a PhD in Virology [9] for research completed at the National Institute for Medical Research. [10] [11] [12] [13]
Between 1981 and 1984, while he was working in the United States under the National Institutes of Health, [14] Smith developed and pioneered the use of genetically engineered live vaccines. [15] Between 1985 and 1989 he lectured at the University of Cambridge. [11] During 2002 Smith sequenced a strain of Camelpox showing how close it was to human Smallpox. [16]
Prior to 2002, he was based at the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology at the University of Oxford. [4] [11] [17] Between 1988 and 1992 his work was funded by the Jenner Fellowship from The Lister Institute; [18] he became a governor of the Institute in 2003. [19] [20]
Smith was editor-in-chief of the Journal of General Virology [20] up until 2008 and chairs the World Health Organization's Advisory Committee on Variola Virus Research. [21] [22] [23] In 2009 Smith was elected as one of the founding members of the new European Academy of Microbiology and the following year was elected as a corresponding member of the Gesellschaft für Virologie. [24] Until 2011 he was the head of the Department of Virology at Imperial College London. [2] [25] As of 2011 Smith became president of the International Union of Microbiological Societies. [26] [10]
Andrew H. Wyllie had been the previous holder of the head of the Department of Pathology at Cambridge until retirement in September 2011. [27]
In 2002, Smith was elected as a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences. In 2003, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society [4] [28] and in 2005 was awarded the Feldburg Foundation Prize for his work on poxviruses. [29] Since 2010, he is a founding member of the European Academy of Microbiology. [30] In 2011 he was elected as a fellow of the Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. [31] [32] In June 2012 Smith was awarded the 2012 GlaxoSmithKline International Member of the Year Award by the American Society for Microbiology. [13]
His maternal grandfather was Ralph Lilley Turner,[ citation needed] director of the School of Oriental Studies and a philologist of Indian languages.
Professor Geoffrey L Smith FRS, FMedSci, FRSB, Wellcome Principal Research Fellow and Chair of Dept: Division of Investigative Science
Professor Geoffrey Lilley Smith, M.A., CHR, BSc (Hons), University of Leeds, PhD, CNAA, M.A., Oxford, FRS, FSBiol, FMedSci, Professor of Virology, Imperial College London, and Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow, elected Professor of Pathology with effect from 1 October 2011.
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Following the appointment of Professor Geoffrey Smith FRS as Head of Department and Professor of Pathology from 1 October 2011
Professor Geoffrey Smith, from Imperial College London … led a review of the state of scientific research on behalf of the WHO
Reader in Bacteriology, Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford ... ... in 1985 he returned to the U.K. to a lectureship in Virology in the Department of Pathology, University of Cambridge. ... in 1989 to a Readership in the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford.
Professor Geoffrey Smith FRS, Biochemistry and Microbiology, 1977
Smith … is the Head of the Department of Virology at Imperial College London. As a postdoctoral fellow in Bernard Moss's laboratory at the National Institutes of Health, USA (1981–84) he developed Vaccinia virus as an expression vector and pioneered the use of genetically engineered viruses as live vaccines
The Advisory Committee then elected Professor Geoffrey Smith as chairman
Professor Geoffrey Smith of Cambridge University, who chairs the WHO's advisory committee on variola virus research, said that he is personally in favour of destroying the virus but that some nations still want the decision deferred until further research has been done.
"My view is that [the drugs] are pretty much done," Dr. Geoffrey Smith of Cambridge University in England told Quartz.
Included in this year's fellows are Professor Geoffrey Smith, known for his research on a smallpox vaccine.
Year of election: 2011
Die neuen Leopoldina-Mitglieder gehören der Klasse II an, die die Disziplinen der Lebenswissenschaften vereinigt.
Geoffrey Smith | |
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Born | [1] | 23 July 1955
Scientific career | |
Thesis | Replication of the influenze virus genome (1981) |
Website |
www |
Geoffrey Lilley Smith (born 1955) [1] FRS FMedSci FRSB [2] [3] is a British virologist and medical research authority in the area of Vaccinia virus and the family of Poxviruses. [4] Since 1 October 2011 he is head of the Department of Pathology at the University of Cambridge [3] [5] and a principal research fellow of the Wellcome Trust. [6] Before that, he was head of the Department of Virology at Imperial College London. [7] [8]
Smith was educated at the Bootham School [1] in York and completed his bachelor's degree at the University of Leeds in 1977. In 1981 he was awarded a PhD in Virology [9] for research completed at the National Institute for Medical Research. [10] [11] [12] [13]
Between 1981 and 1984, while he was working in the United States under the National Institutes of Health, [14] Smith developed and pioneered the use of genetically engineered live vaccines. [15] Between 1985 and 1989 he lectured at the University of Cambridge. [11] During 2002 Smith sequenced a strain of Camelpox showing how close it was to human Smallpox. [16]
Prior to 2002, he was based at the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology at the University of Oxford. [4] [11] [17] Between 1988 and 1992 his work was funded by the Jenner Fellowship from The Lister Institute; [18] he became a governor of the Institute in 2003. [19] [20]
Smith was editor-in-chief of the Journal of General Virology [20] up until 2008 and chairs the World Health Organization's Advisory Committee on Variola Virus Research. [21] [22] [23] In 2009 Smith was elected as one of the founding members of the new European Academy of Microbiology and the following year was elected as a corresponding member of the Gesellschaft für Virologie. [24] Until 2011 he was the head of the Department of Virology at Imperial College London. [2] [25] As of 2011 Smith became president of the International Union of Microbiological Societies. [26] [10]
Andrew H. Wyllie had been the previous holder of the head of the Department of Pathology at Cambridge until retirement in September 2011. [27]
In 2002, Smith was elected as a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences. In 2003, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society [4] [28] and in 2005 was awarded the Feldburg Foundation Prize for his work on poxviruses. [29] Since 2010, he is a founding member of the European Academy of Microbiology. [30] In 2011 he was elected as a fellow of the Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. [31] [32] In June 2012 Smith was awarded the 2012 GlaxoSmithKline International Member of the Year Award by the American Society for Microbiology. [13]
His maternal grandfather was Ralph Lilley Turner,[ citation needed] director of the School of Oriental Studies and a philologist of Indian languages.
Professor Geoffrey L Smith FRS, FMedSci, FRSB, Wellcome Principal Research Fellow and Chair of Dept: Division of Investigative Science
Professor Geoffrey Lilley Smith, M.A., CHR, BSc (Hons), University of Leeds, PhD, CNAA, M.A., Oxford, FRS, FSBiol, FMedSci, Professor of Virology, Imperial College London, and Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow, elected Professor of Pathology with effect from 1 October 2011.
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"All text published under the heading 'Biography' on Fellow profile pages is available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License." -- "Royal Society Terms, conditions and policies". Archived from the original on 25 September 2015. Retrieved 9 March 2016.
{{ cite web}}
: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown ( link)
Following the appointment of Professor Geoffrey Smith FRS as Head of Department and Professor of Pathology from 1 October 2011
Professor Geoffrey Smith, from Imperial College London … led a review of the state of scientific research on behalf of the WHO
Reader in Bacteriology, Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford ... ... in 1985 he returned to the U.K. to a lectureship in Virology in the Department of Pathology, University of Cambridge. ... in 1989 to a Readership in the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford.
Professor Geoffrey Smith FRS, Biochemistry and Microbiology, 1977
Smith … is the Head of the Department of Virology at Imperial College London. As a postdoctoral fellow in Bernard Moss's laboratory at the National Institutes of Health, USA (1981–84) he developed Vaccinia virus as an expression vector and pioneered the use of genetically engineered viruses as live vaccines
The Advisory Committee then elected Professor Geoffrey Smith as chairman
Professor Geoffrey Smith of Cambridge University, who chairs the WHO's advisory committee on variola virus research, said that he is personally in favour of destroying the virus but that some nations still want the decision deferred until further research has been done.
"My view is that [the drugs] are pretty much done," Dr. Geoffrey Smith of Cambridge University in England told Quartz.
Included in this year's fellows are Professor Geoffrey Smith, known for his research on a smallpox vaccine.
Year of election: 2011
Die neuen Leopoldina-Mitglieder gehören der Klasse II an, die die Disziplinen der Lebenswissenschaften vereinigt.