Alain Townsend
Alain Townsend FRS FRCP is a Professor of Medicine in the Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine at Oxford University.[1] His laboratory studies virology, mainly influenza, but more recently ebola.
| Alain Townsend | |
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| Alma mater | |
| Awards | |
| Website | https://www.rdm.ox.ac.uk/people/alain-townsend  |
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| Fields | Immunology |
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| Thesis | Recognition by influenza virus specific cytotoxic T cell clones |
| Doctoral advisor | Brigitte Askonas |
After graduating from St Mary's Hospital, London, he went to the National Institute for Medical Research to study immunology.[2] He received his PhD in 1984, supervised by Brigitte Askonas.[3]
Awards
- 1989 William B. Coley Award[4]
- 1992 Fellow of the Royal Society [5]
- 1992 Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine (1992)[6]
- 2000 Gairdner Foundation International Award
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References
- "Prof Alain R Townsend FRS FRCP - Radcliffe Department of Medicine, University of Oxford".
- "Gairdner Foundation - Alain R.M. Townsend".
- Unanue, Emil R (15 February 2013). "Brigitte Askonas 1923–2013". Nature Immunology. 14 (3): 191. Bibcode:2013Natur.494...37O. doi:10.1038/ni.2553.
- "William B. Coley Award". Cancer Research Institute. Retrieved 12 February 2018.
- "Alain Townsend - Biography". royal Society. Retrieved 14 January 2017.
- Louis-Jeantet Prize
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