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Jim Smith
Jim Smith received his
degree in Natural Sciences (Zoology) from Christ’s College,
Cambridge University (UK), in 1976, and his Ph. D. from London
University in 1979, for his thesis work supervised by Lewis
Wolpert. He spent two years as a postdoctoral fellow at the
Sidney Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School
studying the mode of action of platelet-derived growth factor
under Dr C. D. Stiles, before returning to England to work
on cell interactions in early Xenopus development
in Jonathan Slack’s lab. He took a career appointment at
the National Institute for Medical Research in 1984 and became
a Senior Scientist at the same institute in 1990. He went
on to head the Laboratory of Developmental Biology the next
year, and was named Head of the Genes and Cellular Controls
Group in 1996. He moved to the Wellcome/CRC Institute as
Senior Group Leader and Director-Designate in 2000. Dr. Smith
was appointed Director of the Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research
UK Gurdon Institute and John Humphrey Plummer Professor of
Developmental Biology, University of Cambridge, as well as
a fellow at Christ’s College Cambridge in 2001. He has served
on the editorial boards of numerous journals and is currently
editor in chief of Development. His research interests
include the study of inductive interactions and long-range
signalling in vertebrate development; modes of morphogen
action and cellular response; cell movements during development;
and transcriptional regulation. |
