| John Paul | |
| Birth Date: | 25 April 1922 |
| Birth Place: | Wishaw, Scotland |
| Citizenship: | United Kingdom |
| Nationality: | Scottish |
| Education: | University of Glasgow |
| Alma Mater: | University of Glasgow |
| Known For: | research on cell biology, tissue culture and cancer |
John Paul (192227 June 1994) was a biomedical research scientist living in Scotland, UK. He was the founding director of the Beatson Institute for Cancer Research in Glasgow, Scotland.[1]
He wrote five books on the subject of cell biology, tissue culture and cancer, including Cell Biology: A Current Summary[2] and Cell and Tissue Culture.[3]
In 1961 he invented and patented an apparatus for cell and tissue culture.[4] In 1966, he, along with Robert Edwards, derived the world’s first embryonic stem cells.[5]
Paul was born on 25 April 1922 in Wishaw, Lanarkshire, Scotland.[6] He graduated from the University of Glasgow with an MB ChB in 1944, then completed a PhD in biochemistry. He was the Ure scholar at Glasgow University in 1948–51 and the McCunn scholar at the University of Edinburgh, followed by a research fellowship (Rockefeller travelling research fellowship) at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York in 1952–53.[7]
He was director of the Tissue Culture Laboratories of the Department of Biochemistry in the University of Glasgow[8] and became a reader in 1962 and a Titular Professor in 1964. He left Glasgow University in 1966 to become Director of the Cancer Research Laboratories of the Royal Beatson Memorial Hospital in Glasgow.[9] [10] [11]
He retired in 1987 and died 27 June 1994.
Paul was awarded an honorary DSc by the University of Glasgow in 1989.[6]
There is a John Paul Career Award named after him, which third year PhD students at the Scotland Institute are eligible for.