Geoffrey L. Smith

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For other people named Geoffrey Smith, see Geoffrey Smith (disambiguation).

Geoffrey Lilley Smith (born 1955[1]) FRS FMedSci FIBiol[2][3] 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[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]

Smith completed his bachelor's degree at the University of Leeds in 1977 and in 1981 gained a PhD in Virology whilst in London at the National Institute for Medical Research.[8][9][10] Between 1981–1984, while he was working in the United States under the National Institutes of Health,[11] Smith developed and pioneered the use of genetically engineered live vaccines.[12] Between 1985–1989 he lectured at the University of Cambridge.[8] During 2002 Smith sequenced a strain of Camelpox showing how close it was to human Smallpox.[13]

Prior to 2002, he was based at the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology at the University of Oxford.[8][14] Between 1988–1992 his work was funded by the Jenner Fellowship from The Lister Institute;[15] he became a governor of the Institute in 2003.[16][17] In 1992 the Society for General Microbiology awarded Smith their Fleming Award for outstanding work by a young microbiologist.[8] In 2002, Smith was elected as a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences. In 2003, he was invited to become a Fellow of the Royal Society[18][19] and in 2005 was awarded the Feldburg Foundation Prize for his work on poxviruses.[20] In 2011 he was elected as a fellow of the German Academy of Sciences (Leopoldina).[21][22] In June 2012 Smith was awarded the 2012 GlaxoSmithKline International Member of the Year Award by the American Society for Microbiology.[10]

Smith was editor-in-chief of the Journal of General Virology[17] up until 2008 and chairs the WHO's Advisory Committee on Variola Virus Research.[23][24][25] 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 Gesellschaft für Virologie.[26] Until 2011 he was the Head of the Department of Virology at Imperial College London.[2][27] As of 2011 Smith became president of the International Union of Microbiological Societies.[28]

His maternal grandfather was Ralph Lilley Turner, director of the School of Oriental Studies and a philologist of Indian languages. Andrew H. Wyllie had been the previous holder of the Head of the Department of Pathology at Cambridge until retirement in September 2011.[29]

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External links

  • Profile at University of Cambridge
  • Profile at Imperial College London
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