John Tooze
John Tooze | |
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| Born | 16 May 1938 |
| Died | 19 May 2021 (aged 83) |
| Alma mater | |
| Awards | EMBO Gold Medal |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Biology |
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| Thesis | Studies on amphibian erythrocytes and erythropoietic tissues (1965) |
John Tooze FRS[1] (16 May 1938 – 19 May 2021)[2] was a British research scientist,[3] research administrator, author, science journalist, former executive director of EMBO/EMBC, director of research services at the Cancer Research UK London Research Institute and a vice president at The Rockefeller University.
Early childhood and education
John Tooze was born and grew up in a terraced house on Thornbury Road in
Research and career
Research
Following his PhD, Tooze spent two years working as a
Positions with the journal Nature
Beginning in 1966 Tooze had been writing under the byline “our cell biology correspondent” a regular weekly column for the news and views section of the scientific journal Nature. From March 1968 to Sept 1969 he worked full-time as assistant and later as deputy editor working with the editor-in-chief John Maddox.[4][6]
Research administration
Tooze served as executive secretary of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) for over 20 years and secretary of the European Molecular Biology Conference (EMBC).[2][7][8][9] In 1982, he founded The EMBO Journal.[1][10][11]
Death
Tooze died on 19 May 2021 at the age of 83.[12]
Awards and honors
Tooze was awarded the
- 1986 Elected member of European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
- 1986 Recipient of EMBO Gold Medal for contributions to promotion of molecular biology in Europe
- 1993 Elected member of Academia Europaea
- 1994 Elected Fellow of the Royal Society, UK
- 2016 Doctor of Science, h.c., Watson School of Biological Sciences, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, New York
Timeline
- 1938 Born Birmingham, England
- 1949–1955 Handsworth Grammar School, Birmingham, England
- 1955 State scholarship
- 1955 Open scholarship, Jesus College, Cambridge
- 1956–1958 Military service British Army – final rank sergeant
- 1958–1961 Jesus College, Cambridge University – B.A. honors
- 1965 Ph.D. biophysics, University of London
- 1965–1967 Postdoctoral fellow – J.D. Watson laboratory Harvard University
- 1961 Staff member MRC Biophysics Unit, King's College, University of London
- 1963–1968 Lecturer, Department of Biophysics, King's College, University of London
- 1968–1969 Deputy editor, Nature, London
- 1970–1973 Research administrator, Imperial Cancer Research Fund (ICRF), Lincoln's Inn Fields, London.
- 1973–1994 Executive Secretary, European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO), Heidelberg
- 1982–1993 Scientific Co-ordinator European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Heidelberg
- 1993–1994 Acting director general, EMBL
- 1991–2015 Trustee of The Darwin Trust of Edinburgh
- 1994–2002 ICRF director of support services, Imperial Cancer Research Fund
- 2002–2003 Executive director of research integration and services, Cancer Research UK (formerly Imperial Cancer Research Fund)
- 2003–2005 Director of research services, Cancer Research UK
- 2005–2013 Vice president for scientific and facility operations, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY
- 2014 Retired
Editorships
- 1976–1980 Editor: Cancer Reviews, BBA, Elsevier North Holland
- 1979–1985 Editor in chief: Trends in Biochemical Sciences (TIBS)
- 1982–2003 Executive editor: The EMBO Journal
- 1991–1999 Advisory editor, Bio Essays, Cambridge, UK
- 1993–2003 Associate editor, European Journal of Cell Biology
- 1993–2001 Editorial board, Structural Biology
References
- ^ a b c d Anon (1994). "Dr John Tooze FRS". London: royalsociety.org. Archived from the original on 23 November 2015. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where:
All text published under the heading 'Biography' on Fellow profile pages is available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License." --"Royal Society Terms, conditions and policies". Archived from the original on 25 September 2015. Retrieved 9 March 2016.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) - ^ a b c "TOOZE, Dr. John". Who's Who. Vol. 1995 (online Oxford University Press ed.). Oxford: A & C Black. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ John Tooze's publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
- ^ a b c d Ferry, Georgina (2014). "John Tooze Biography". embo.org. Archived from the original on 24 April 2015.
- PMID 8385018.
- S2CID 26494368.
- S2CID 40080685.
- OCLC 892947326. Archived from the original(PDF) on 24 August 2016.
- PMID 25013879.
- .
- PMID 34184777.
- ^ "In remembrance of John Tooze – People – EMBO". Retrieved 23 June 2021.
- ^ Anon (31 January 2014). "John Tooze, VP of scientific and facility operations, retires". Rockefeller University. Archived from the original on 18 March 2016. Retrieved 15 March 2016.
Books published
- Tooze, J., ed. (1972). Second Readings in Molecular Biology. London: Macmillan. ISBN 978-0333111819.
- Tooze, J., ed. (1973). The Molecular Biology of Tumour Viruses. Cold Spring Harbor: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. ISBN 0879691085.
- Tooze, J., ed. (1974). Selected Papers in Tumour Virology. Cold Spring Harbor: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. ISBN 978-0879691127.
- Tooze, J., ed. (1972). DNA Tumour Viruses. Cold Spring Harbor: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. ISBN 0879691425.
- Watson, J. D.; Tooze, J. (1981). The DNA Story. San Francisco: W. H. Freeman. ISBN 978-0716715900.
- Watson, J. D.; Tooze, J.; Kurz, D. (1983). Recombinant DNA: A Short Course. San Francisco: W. H. Freeman. ISBN 978-0716714842.
- Hunt, D.; Tooze, J.; Kurz, D. (1983). DNA makes RNA makes Protein. Elsevier Biomedical Press. ISBN 978-0444804914.
- Branden, C. I.; Tooze, J. (1991). Introduction to Protein Structure. New York: Garland. ISBN 978-0815302704.
- Branden, C. I.; Tooze, J. (1999). Introduction to Protein Structure - 2nd Edition. New York: Garland. ISBN 978-8153230505.
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