Austin Gerard Smith

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Austin Smith
Born
Austin Gerard Smith

1960 (age 63–64)
Stem Cells
InstitutionsUniversity of Exeter
Thesis (1986)
Doctoral advisorMartin Hooper[citation needed]
Websitewww.exeter.ac.uk[3]

Austin Gerard Smith (born 1960) is a professor at the

embryonic stem cells.[4][5]

Education

Austin Smith obtained his doctoral degree from the University of Edinburgh in 1986.[6][7]

Career and research

He then carried out

Medical Research Council (UK) in 2012.[10]

In 2019, he was appointed as the new Director of the University of Exeter's Living Systems Institute.[3]

In 2003, Smith was awarded an MRC Research Professorship

Michel Haissaguerre.[1]

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]

References

  1. ^ a b "2010 Louis-Jeantet prize for medicine | EurekAlert! Science News". Eurekalert.org. Retrieved 25 June 2017.
  2. ^ Austin SMITH Winner of the 2010 Louis-Jeantet Prize for medicine
  3. ^ a b c "Professor Austin Smith FRS, Exeter".
  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. ^
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  8. ^ "Stage set for world-leading stem cell research centre". Wellcome Trust. Archived from the original on 20 March 2012. Retrieved 5 September 2012.
  9. ^ "Stage set for world-leading stem cell research centre | University of Cambridge". Cam.ac.uk. 25 July 2006. Retrieved 25 June 2017.
  10. ^ "Cambridge Joins Harvard In Opening Stem-Cell Institute". Bloomberg News. 8 August 2012.
  11. ^ "RSE Fellows as at 12/04/2011" (PDF). Royal Society of Edinburgh. Archived from the original (PDF) on 17 May 2011. Retrieved 26 April 2011.
  12. ^ "Fellows". Royal Society. Archived from the original on 30 November 2010. Retrieved 4 December 2010.
  13. ^ "Open letter to Senior Editors of peer-review journals publishing in the field of stem cell biology". Retrieved 5 September 2012.
  14. ^ Ghosh, Pallab (2 February 2010). "Journal stem cell work 'blocked'". BBC News.


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