Austin Gerard Smith Explained

Austin Smith
Birth Name:Austin Gerard Smith
Birth Place:Merseyside, UK[1]
Field:Stem Cells
Work Institution:University of Exeter
Alma Mater:University of Edinburgh
Doctoral Advisor:Martin Hooper
Thesis Year:1986
Prizes:Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine (2010)

Austin Gerard Smith (born 1960) is a professor at the University of Exeter and director of its Living Systems Institute.[2] He is notable for his pioneering work on the biology of embryonic stem cells.[3] [4]

Education

Austin Smith obtained his doctoral degree from the University of Edinburgh in 1986.[5] [6]

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. In 1996, he was appointed director of the centre, which became the Institute for Stem Cell Research under his leadership. He remained as director of the Institute until his move to Cambridge in 2006.[7] Here, he became a director of the Welcome Trust Centre for Stem Cell Research [8] 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.[9]

In 2019, he was appointed as the new Director of the University of Exeter's Living Systems Institute.[2]

In 2003, Smith was awarded an MRC Research Professorship and elected to the Royal Society of Edinburgh.[10] And in 2006, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society.[11] In 2010, he was co-recipient of the Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine along with French cardiologist Michel Haissaguerre.[12]

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]

Notes and References

  1. https://archive.today/20130115213134/http://www.jeantet.ch/e/winners/smith-austin.htmProfessor Austin SMITH Winner of the 2010 Louis-Jeantet Prize for medicine
  2. Web site: Professor Austin Smith FRS, Exeter.
  3. News: The Stars of Europe – Innovators: Austin Smith, Director, Centre for Genome Research . Businessweek . 17 June 2002 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20080531001902/http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/02_24/b3787622.htm . 31 May 2008 .
  4. News: New Safer Way Developed To Reprogram Stem Cells . Science Daily . 3 March 2009.
  5. 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 . Tracking the embryonic stem cell transition from ground state pluripotency . Development . The Company of Biologists . 144 . 7 . 1 April 2017 . 1477-9129 . 10.1242/dev.142711 . 1221–1234. 28174249 . 5399622 .
  6. Gerard. Smith, Austin. 1986. Genetic analysis of embryonal carcinoma cells. 1842/20194. en.
  7. Web site: Stage set for world-leading stem cell research centre . Wellcome Trust . 5 September 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120320023500/http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/News/Media-office/Press-releases/2006/WTX032909.htm . 20 March 2012 . dead .
  8. Web site: Stage set for world-leading stem cell research centre | University of Cambridge . Cam.ac.uk . 2006-07-25 . 2017-06-25.
  9. News: Cambridge Joins Harvard In Opening Stem-Cell Institute . Bloomberg News . 8 August 2012.
  10. Web site: RSE Fellows as at 12/04/2011. Royal Society of Edinburgh. 26 April 2011. https://web.archive.org/web/20110517011845/http://www.royalsoced.org.uk/fellowship/fellows.pdf. 17 May 2011. dead.
  11. Web site: Fellows. Royal Society. 4 December 2010. https://web.archive.org/web/20101130205758/http://royalsociety.org/about-us/fellowship/fellows/. 30 November 2010 . live.
  12. Web site: 2010 Louis-Jeantet prize for medicine | EurekAlert! Science News . Eurekalert.org . 2017-06-25.
  13. Web site: Open letter to Senior Editors of peer-review journals publishing in the field of stem cell biology. 5 September 2012.
  14. News: Journal stem cell work 'blocked' . BBC News . Pallab . Ghosh . 2 February 2010.

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