James Cuthbert Smith
James (Jim) Cuthbert Smith FMedSci FRS (born 31 December 1954) is Deputy Chief Executive of the Medical Research Council in the UK and the Director of the National Institute for Medical Research.
Education
Jim Smith graduated from Cambridge University in 1976 and completed his PhD at Middlesex Hospital Medical School in 1979.[1][2]
Career
He held a postdoctoral position at Harvard Medical School from 1979–81, then a postdoctoral position at ICRF from 1981-84. In 1984 he joined the staff of the National Institute for Medical Research, becoming head of the Division of Developmental Biology in 1991. He moved to become director of the Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute in 2001, returning to NIMR in 2009 to become its director. In 2014 he became Deputy CEO of the Medical Research Council.
Jim Smith's research has focused on how cells of the very early vertebrate embryo form the specialised tissues of muscle, skin, blood and bone.[1]
Awards and honours
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1993.[1] He was awarded the Waddington Medal by the British Society for Developmental Biology in 2013.[3] In 2014 he was named by the Evening Standard as one of the 1000 most influential Londoners,[4] in the 'Innovators' section.
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