John Todd (British biologist)
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John Todd | |
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Born | John Andrew Todd |
Citizenship | United Kingdom |
Alma mater | University of Edinburgh |
Awards | David Rumbough Award for Scientific Excellence |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Human Genetics |
Institutions | University of Cambridge Stanford University University of Oxford Wellcome Trust |
Doctoral advisor | Professor David Ellar |
Influenced | Professor Hugh McDevitt |
Website | https://www.well.ox.ac.uk/people/john-todd |
John Andrew Todd FMedSci FRS is Professor of Precision Medicine at the University of Oxford,[1] director of the Wellcome Center for Human Genetics[2] and the JDRF/Wellcome Trust Diabetes and Inflammation Laboratory,[3] in addition to Jeffrey Cheah Fellow in Medicine at Brasenose College.[4] He works in collaboration with David Clayton and Linda Wicker to examine the molecular basis of type 1 diabetes.[5][6]
Education[edit]
Todd received a Bsc in Biological Sciences from the University of Edinburgh (1980), he went on to study a PhD in Biochemistry at the University of Cambridge supervised by David Ellar which he completed in 1983 with a thesis entitled "Penicillin-binding proteins during growth and differentiation of bacilli".[7]
Awards and Honors[edit]
- Founding Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences (1998).[8]
- Honorary Member of the Royal College of Physicians (2000).[9]
- Fellow of the Royal Society in (2009).[10]
- JDRF David Rumbrough Award for Scientific Excellence (2011).[11]
- Helmholtz international fellow award (2015).[12]
References[edit]
- ^ "Professor John Todd". Brasenose College, University of Oxford. Retrieved 19 April 2018.
- ^ "NEW WCHG Director — Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics". www.well.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 2019-07-15.
- ^ "Professor John A Todd FRS FMedSci". Nuffield Department of Medicine: Medical Sciences Division. University of Oxford. Retrieved 19 April 2018.
- ^ "Professor John Todd - Brasenose College, Oxford". www.bnc.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 2019-07-15.
- ^ "Defence cell genetics unscrambled". BBC News. 22 January 2007.
- ^ "Royal Society". royalsociety.org. Retrieved 2018-01-02.
- ^ Todd, John (8 November 1983). "Penicillin-binding proteins during growth and differentiation of bacilli". iDiscover Cambridge University. Retrieved 2019-07-11.
- ^ "Professor John Todd | The Academy of Medical Sciences". acmedsci.ac.uk. Retrieved 2019-07-11.
- ^ "Professor John Todd - Networks of evidence and expertise for public policy". www.csap.cam.ac.uk. Retrieved 2019-07-11.
- ^ "John Todd | Royal Society". royalsociety.org. Retrieved 2019-07-11.
- ^ "David Rumbough Award Recipients" (PDF). JDRF. 21 March 2018. Retrieved 11 July 2019.
- ^ "Press Release – Helmholtz Zentrum München". www.helmholtz-muenchen.de. Retrieved 2019-07-11.
External links[edit]
- JDRF/WT Diabetes and Inflammation Laboratory
- Cambridge BioResource
- Profile at the Cambridge Institute for Medical Research
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