Chris Higgins (academic)

Christopher Francis Higgins
Born (1955-06-24) 24 June 1955 (age 69) [4]
NationalityBritish
Alma materRoyal College of Music
Durham University
ChildrenFive
AwardsFRSE
FMedSci
EMBO member
FRSA
Scientific career
FieldsGenetics
InstitutionsDurham University
University of Oxford
Imperial College London
University of Dundee
ThesisPeptide transport by embryos of germinating barley, Hordeum vulgare (1979)
Doctoral advisorJohn W. Payne[1][2][3]
Websitewww.dur.ac.uk/vice.chancellor

Christopher Francis Higgins FRSE FRSA FMedSci (born 24 June 1955) is a British molecular biologist, geneticist, academic and scientific advisor. He was the Vice-Chancellor of Durham University from 2007 to 2014. He took early retirement on 30 September 2014, following a discussion at Senate on limiting the powers of the Vice Chancellor.[5] He was previously the director of the MRC Clinical Sciences Centre and Head of Division in the Faculty of Medicine at Imperial College London.

  1. ^ Higgins, C. F.; Payne, J. W. (1981). "The Peptide pools of germinating barley grains: Relation to hydrolysis and transport of storage proteins". Plant Physiology. 67 (4): 785–792. doi:10.1104/pp.67.4.785. PMC 425773. PMID 16661755.
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  4. ^ "HIGGINS, Prof. Christopher Francis" (Who's Who 2013, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2013; online edn, Oxford University Press).(subscription required)
  5. ^ Tallentire, Mark (5 March 2014). "Durham University vice-chancellor to retire in September". The Northern Echo. Retrieved 5 March 2014.