Geoffrey L. Smith

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Geoffrey Lilley Smith (born 1955)[1] is a British virologist and medical research authority in the area of Vaccinia virus and the family of Poxviruses.[2] Since 1 October 2011 he is head of the Department of Pathology at the University of Cambridge[3][4] and a principal research fellow of the Wellcome Trust.[5] Before that, he was head of the Department of Virology at Imperial College London.[6][7]

Education

Smith was educated at the Bootham School[1] in York and completed his bachelor's degree at the University of Leeds in 1977. In 1981 he was awarded a PhD in Virology[8] for research completed at the National Institute for Medical Research.[9][10][11][12]

Career and research

Between 1981 and 1984, while he was working in the United States under the National Institutes of Health,[13] Smith developed and pioneered the use of genetically engineered live vaccines.[14] Between 1985 and 1989 he lectured at the University of Cambridge.[10] During 2002 Smith sequenced a strain of Camelpox showing how close it was to human Smallpox.[15]

Prior to 2002, he was based at the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology at the University of Oxford.[2][10][16] Between 1988 and 1992 his work was funded by the Jenner Fellowship from The Lister Institute;[17] he became a governor of the Institute in 2003.[18][19]

Smith was editor-in-chief of the Journal of General Virology[19] up until 2008 and chairs the World Health Organization's Advisory Committee on Variola Virus Research.[20][21][22] In 2009 Smith was elected as one of the founding members of the new European Academy of Microbiology and the following year was elected as a corresponding member of the Script error: No such module "Lang"..[23] Until 2011 he was the head of the Department of Virology at Imperial College London.[24][25] As of 2011 Smith became president of the International Union of Microbiological Societies.[26][9]

Andrew H. Wyllie had been the previous holder of the head of the Department of Pathology at Cambridge until retirement in September 2011.[27]

Publications

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Awards and honours

In 2002, Smith was elected as a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences. In 2003, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society[2][28] and in 2005 was awarded the Feldburg Foundation Prize for his work on poxviruses.[29] Since 2010, he is a founding member of the European Academy of Microbiology.[30] In 2011 he was elected as a fellow of the Academy of Sciences Leopoldina.[31][32] In June 2012 Smith was awarded the 2012 GlaxoSmithKline International Member of the Year Award by the American Society for Microbiology.[12]

Personal life

His maternal grandfather was Ralph Lilley Turner,Template:Fact director of the School of Oriental Studies and a philologist of Indian languages.

References

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