Geoffrey L. Smith

For other people named Geoffrey Smith, see Geoffrey Smith (disambiguation).
Geoffrey Smith
FRS FMedSci FRSB
Born (1955-07-23) 23 July 1955 (age 69)[1]
Scientific career
ThesisReplication of the influenze virus genome (1981)
Websitewww.path.cam.ac.uk/directory/geoffrey-smith

Geoffrey Lilley Smith (born 1955)[1] FRS FMedSci FRSB[2][3] is a British virologist and medical research authority in the area of Vaccinia virus and the family of Poxviruses.[4] Since 1 October 2011 he is head of the Department of Pathology at the University of Cambridge[3][5] and a principal research fellow of the Wellcome Trust.[6] Before that, he was head of the Department of Virology at Imperial College London.[7][8]

  1. ^ a b "SMITH, Prof. Geoffrey Lilley". Who's Who. Vol. 2006 (online Oxford University Press ed.). Oxford: A & C Black. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  2. ^ "Professor Geoffrey L Smith". Contact details. Imperial College London. Archived from the original on 11 July 2009. Retrieved 9 May 2008. Professor Geoffrey L Smith FRS, FMedSci, FRSB, Wellcome Principal Research Fellow and Chair of Dept: Division of Investigative Science
  3. ^ a b "Elections". Vacancies, appointments, etc. Vol. CXLI No 22. The Chancellor, Masters and Scholars of the University of Cambridge. 16 March 2011. Retrieved 6 January 2012. Professor Geoffrey Lilley Smith, M.A., CHR, BSc (Hons), University of Leeds, PhD, CNAA, M.A., Oxford, FRS, FSBiol, FMedSci, Professor of Virology, Imperial College London, and Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow, elected Professor of Pathology with effect from 1 October 2011. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
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  5. ^ "Two University Lectureships in Virology and Innate Immunity – Department of Pathology". University of Cambridge. 4 September 2011. Archived from the original on 2 August 2012. Retrieved 6 January 2012. Following the appointment of Professor Geoffrey Smith FRS as Head of Department and Professor of Pathology from 1 October 2011
  6. ^ Society for General Microbiology (2004). Gillespie, Stephen H.; Smith, Geoffrey L.; Osbourn, Anne (eds.). Microbe-vector interactions in vector-borne diseases (Symposium). Cambridge University Press. p. Back Cover. ISBN 978-0-521-84312-6.
  7. ^ "Warning over smallpox relative". BBC News. 17 April 2002. Retrieved 3 February 2010.
  8. ^ "Should the US and Russia destroy their smallpox stocks?". BBC News. 16 May 2011. Professor Geoffrey Smith, from Imperial College London … led a review of the state of scientific research on behalf of the WHO