Caroline S. Hill

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Caroline Hill
Scientific career
FieldsDevelopmental biology[2]
Cancer biology[2]
Signal transduction[2]
InstitutionsFrancis Crick Institute
ThesisStructural studies of sea urchin sperm chromatin (1988)
Doctoral advisorJean Thomas
Websitewww.crick.ac.uk/research/a-z-researchers/researchers-d-j/caroline-hill

Caroline Susan Hill FMedSci (born 21 October 1961) is a group leader and head of the Developmental Signalling Laboratory at the Francis Crick Institute.[3][4][5][2]

Education

Hill was educated at North London Collegiate School and graduated from the University of Cambridge with a first in Natural Sciences in 1984.[citation needed] She was an undergraduate at Trinity Hall, Cambridge and then did postgraduate research at Murray Edwards College, Cambridge, then known as New Hall, and was awarded a PhD in 1989[6] for research supervised by Jean Thomas.[7]

Career and research

Hill moved to the Cancer Research UK (CRUK)[8] London Research Institute (now part of the Francis Crick Institute) in 1998, to head up the Developmental Signalling Laboratory.[9] In November 2016, she was interviewed on the BBC World Service, along with the Crick's chief executive Paul Nurse about the future of biomedical research.[10]

Awards and honours

Hill was elected a member of the

Academy of Medical Sciences.[13]

References

  1. ^ a b "Find people in the EMBO Communities". people.embo.org. Retrieved 27 May 2018.
  2. ^ a b c d Caroline S. Hill publications indexed by Google Scholar Edit this at Wikidata
  3. ^ "Caroline Hill | The Francis Crick Institute". Crick.ac.uk. Retrieved 24 July 2017.
  4. ^ Caroline S. Hill publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
  5. ^ Caroline S. Hill publications from Europe PubMed Central
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  7. ^ "Dr Caroline Hill". Cancer Research UK. December 2015. Retrieved 24 July 2017.
  8. ^ Nicola Davis. "Meet the researchers at London's £700m altar to biomedical science | Science". The Guardian. Retrieved 24 July 2017.
  9. ^ "BBC World Service at the Crick – The Francis Crick Institute". Crick.ac.uk. Retrieved 27 May 2018.
  10. ^ Hoffmann, Ilire Hasani, Robert. "Academy of Europe: Hill Caroline". Ae-info.org. Retrieved 27 May 2018.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  11. ^ "Fellows- European Academy of Cancer Sciences". Europeancanceracademy.eu. Retrieved 27 May 2018.
  12. ^ "Fellows- Academy Of Medical Sciences". acmedsci.ac.uk. Retrieved 8 May 2019.[permanent dead link]