Martin Raff#
| Membership Number: | 294 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSIOLOGY & NEUROSCIENCE |
| Elected: | 1989 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2002 Emeritus Professor, MRC Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology , UCL
- 1993 Scientist, MRC Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology, University College London
- 1979 Professor of Biology, Biology Department, University College London
- 1971 MRC Developmental Neurobiology Programme, Biology Department, University College London
- 1969 Postdoctoral Fellow in Immunology, National Institute for Medical Research, Mill Hill, London
- 1965 Resident in Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston
- 1963 Intern and Assistant Resident in Medicine, Royal Victoria Hospital, Montreal
- 1963 MD McGill University
- 1959 BSc McGill University
Fields of Scholarship
- Oligodendrocyte cell lineage
- Cell size control
- Glial cells
- Autism
- Neural development
- Cell number control
Honours and Awards
- 1968 Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada (Neurology)
- 1985 Fellow of the Royal Society
- 1988 Academia Europaea
- 1989 Feldberg Prize
- 1989 Honorary Member of American Neurological Society
- 1991 - 1995 President, British Society of Cell Biology
- 1997 - 2001Chairman, UK Life Sciences Committee
- 1998 British Academy of Medical Sciences
- 1999 Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 2001 Dunham Lectures, Harvard University
- 2002 United Kingdom-Canada Rutherford Lectures
- 2002 Hamdan Prize for Apoptosis in Disease and Health
- 2003 Foreign Associate of National Academy of Sciences of the USA
- 2004 Kuffler Lectures, UCSD
- 2005 Honorary Degree, University College London
- 2005 Honorary Degree McGill University
- 2006 The Biochemical Society Award
- 2007 Honorary Degree, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
