!!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\\
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__Education & Experience:__
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*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
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__Honours:__	
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*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
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__National and International Committees:__
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''Present:''	
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*Lasker Prize Jury, 1996–
*EMBO Meeting Committee
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''Past:''	
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*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
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__Scientific Advisory Boards:__
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''Present:''
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*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
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''Past:''
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*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
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__Editorial Boards:__
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''Present:''	
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*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
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''Past:''	
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*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