Martin Charles Raff#

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MRC Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology and Biology Department, University College London, London WC1E 6BT Born: 15 January 1938
Nationality: Canadian/British citizen
Marital status: Married, 3 children

Education & Experience:

• 1955–59 B.Sc., Magna Cum Laude, McGill University
• 1959–63 M.D.C.M., McGill University
• 1963–65 Intern and Assistant Resident in Medicine, Royal Victoria Hospital, Montreal
• 1965–68 Resident in Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital; Research Fellow in Neurology and Neuropathology, Harvard Medical School
• 1968–71 Postdoctoral Fellow at the National Institute for Medical Research, Mill Hill, London (Mentor: N.A. Mitchison)
• 1971–02 Co-director, Medical Research Council Developmental Neurobiology Programme, Biology Department, University College London
• 1979–02 Professor of Biology, Biology Department, University College London (Personal Chair, funded as part of Medical Research Council Developmental Neurobiology Programme Grant)
• 1992- Scientist, MRC Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology, University College London
• 2002- Emeritus Professor, Biology Department and MRC Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology, University College London

Honours:

• Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society, 1961–
• Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada (Neurology), 1968–
• Fellow of the Royal Society, 1985–
• Academia Europaea, 1988–
• Feldberg Prize, 1989
• Honorary Member of American Neurological Society, 1989–
• President, British Society of Cell Biology, 1991–1995
• Chairman, UK Life Sciences Committee, 1997–2001
• British Academy of Medical Sciences, 1998–
• Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1999–
• Dunham Lectures, Harvard University, 2001
• United Kingdom-Canada Rutherford Lectures, 2002
• Hamdan Prize for Apoptosis in Disease and Health, 2002
• Foreign Associate of National Academy of Sciences of the USA, 2003–
• Kuffler Lectures, UCSD, 2004
• Honorary Degree, University College London, 2005
• Honorary Degree McGill University, 2005
• The Biochemical Society Award, 2006
• Honorary Degree, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, 2007

National and International Committees:

Present:

• Lasker Prize Jury, 1996–
• EMBO Meeting Committee

Past:

• Association of Medical Charities (UK)
• Medical Research Council Neurosciences Board
• EMBO Fellowship Committee
• EMBO Council
• Review Committee for Human Frontier Science (Brain Functions)
• Medical Research Council Strategy and Development Group
• Nuffield Council on Bioethics
• Wellcome Trust Neuroscience and Mental Health Strategy Committee, London

Scientific Advisory Boards:

Present:

• Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research
• Autism Speaks, New York
• Company of Biologists, Board of Directors, UK
• Ellison Medical Foundation, New York
• Champalimaud Foundation, Lisbon
• Glaucoma Foundation Catalyst For Cure, San Francisco
• Gulbenkian Institute of Science, Lisbon
• Medical Research Council Clinical Sciences Centre, London
• Mental Health Research, UK
• Myelin Repair Foundation, California
• Rita Levi-Montalcini European Brain Research Institute, Rome
• Centre de Recherche de L’Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle Epiniere, Paris
• Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative, New York
• Skirball Institute (chairman), NYU
• Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Oxford
• Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Oxford

Past:

• Centre d'Immunologie, Marseilles
• Center for Developmental Neurobiology, King’s College London
• Institute of Molecular Pathology, Vienna (chairman)
• Curis, Inc., Cambridge, MA
• Friedrich Miescher Institute (chairman), Basle
• Idun Pharmaceuticals, San Diego
• Max-Planck Institute for Psychiatry, Martinsreid
• Randall Institute, King’s College London
• Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto
• San Raffaele Institute, Milan
• Topotarget A/S, Abingdon
• Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Melbourne
• Xenova Research Ltd., Cambridge, UK
• ZMBH, Heidelberg

Editorial Boards:

Present:

• Cell Cycle
• Cell Research
• Cell Structure and Function
• Current Opinion in Cell Biology
• Current Opinion in Neurobiology
• Journal of Biology
• Multiple Sclerosis
• Neurobiology of Disease

Past:

• Cell
• Cell Death and Differentiation
• Current Biology
• Development
• EMBO Journal
• EMBO Reports
• European Journal of Immunology
• European Journal of Neuroscience
• Glia
• Journal of Cell Biology
• Journal of Membrane Biology
• Journal of Neurocytology
• Journal of Neuroscience
• Journal of Neuroimmunology
• Journal of Neuroendocrinology
• Journal of Neuroscience Research
• Associate Editor, Molecular Biology of the Cell
• Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience
• Neuron
• Quarterly Journal of Experimental Physiology
• Scandinavian Journal of Immunology
• Science
• Trends in Neuroscience