John Diffley#
| Membership Number: | 2672 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2009 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.crick.ac.uk/john-diffley |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2025 Associate Research Director, The Francis Crick Institute, London, UK
- since 2006 Director, Clare Hall Laboratories
- since 2006 Deputy Director, London Research Institute
- 1999 Honorary Full Professor, University College London, London, U.K. Department of Biology
- 1999 Principal Scientist at Cancer Research UK London Research Institute
- 1995 - 1999 Senior Scientist, ICRF Clare Hall Laboratories, South Mimms, UK. Head of Chromosome Replication Laboratory
- 1990 - 1995 Research Scientist, ICRF Clare Hall Laboratories, South Mimms, U.K. Head of Chromosome Replication Laboratory
Fields of Scholarship
- DNA replication
- Cell cycle control
- Genome stability
Honours and Awards
- 1998 Elected member of European Molecular Biology Organisation (EMBO)
- 2003 Paul Marks Prize for Cancer Research
- 2005 Elected Fellow of the Royal Society
- 2011 Member of the European Academy of Cancer Sciences
- 2011 Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences
- 2016 Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine
- 2019 Canada Gairdner International Award (2019)
- 2020 Elected to the National Academy of Sciences
