Geoffrey L. Smith
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Geoffrey Smith FRS FMedSci FRSB |
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| Born | July 23, 1955 |
| Thesis | Replication of the influenze virus genome (1981) |
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Geoffrey Lilley Smith (born 1955)FRS FMedSci FRSB is a British virologist and medical research authority in the area of Vaccinia virus and the family of Poxviruses. Since 1 October 2011 he is Head of the Department of Pathology at the University of Cambridge and a Principal Research Fellow of the Wellcome Trust. Before that, he was Head of the Department of Virology at Imperial College London.
Smith was educated at the Bootham School in York and completed his bachelor's degree at the University of Leeds in 1977. In 1981 he was awarded a PhD in Virology for research completed at the National Institute for Medical Research.
Between 1981–1984, while he was working in the United States under the National Institutes of Health, Smith developed and pioneered the use of genetically engineered live vaccines. Between 1985–1989 he lectured at the University of Cambridge. During 2002 Smith sequenced a strain of Camelpox showing how close it was to human Smallpox.
Prior to 2002, he was based at the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology at the University of Oxford. Between 1988–1992 his work was funded by the Jenner Fellowship from The Lister Institute; he became a governor of the Institute in 2003.
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