John Todd (British biologist)

This article is about the biologist working on diabetes. For the biologist working in the field of ecological design, see John Todd (Canadian biologist).

Professor John Todd FRS FMedSci
Born	John Andrew Todd (1958-06-23) 23 June 1958 (age 66)
Citizenship	United Kingdom
Alma mater	University of Edinburgh (BSc) University of Cambridge (PhD)
Awards	David Rumbough Award for Scientific Excellence
Scientific career
Fields	Human Genetics
Institutions	University of Cambridge Stanford University University of Oxford Wellcome Trust
Doctoral advisor	David Ellar
Website	https://www.well.ox.ac.uk/people/john-todd

John Andrew Todd (born 23 June 1958) is a British geneticist who is Professor of Precision Medicine at the University of Oxford,^[1] director of the Wellcome Center for Human Genetics^[2] and the JDRF/Wellcome Trust Diabetes and Inflammation Laboratory,^[3] in addition to Jeffrey Cheah Fellow in Medicine at Brasenose College.^[4] He works in collaboration with David Clayton and Linda Wicker to examine the molecular basis of type 1 diabetes.^[5][6]

Early life and education

Todd was born on 23 June 1958.^[7] He received a Bachelor of Science (BSc) degree in biological sciences from the University of Edinburgh in 1980. He went on to study biochemistry at the University of Cambridge, where he was supervised by David Ellar, completing his Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree in 1983 with a thesis entitled "Penicillin-binding proteins during growth and differentiation of bacilli".^[8]

Awards and honors

• Founding Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences (1998).^[9]
• Honorary Member of the Royal College of Physicians (2000).^[10]
• Fellow of the Royal Society in (2009).^[11]
• JDRF David Rumbrough Award for Scientific Excellence (2011).^[12]
• Helmholtz international fellow award (2015).^[13]
• Emeritus Senior Investigator at the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) (2018).^[14]

References

1. "Professor John Todd". Brasenose College, University of Oxford. Retrieved 19 April 2018.
2. "NEW WCHG Director — Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics". www.well.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 15 July 2019.
3. "Professor John A Todd FRS FMedSci". Nuffield Department of Medicine: Medical Sciences Division. University of Oxford. Retrieved 19 April 2018.
4. "Professor John Todd - Brasenose College, Oxford". www.bnc.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 15 July 2019.
5. "Defence cell genetics unscrambled". BBC News. 22 January 2007.
6. "Royal Society". royalsociety.org. Retrieved 2 January 2018.
7. "Todd, Prof. John Andrew, (born 23 June 1958), Professor of Medical Genetics, and Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge, since 1998". Who's Who 2020. Oxford University Press. 1 December 2019. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U37800. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |url= (help)
8. Todd, John (8 November 1983). "Penicillin-binding proteins during growth and differentiation of bacilli". iDiscover Cambridge University. Retrieved 11 July 2019.
9. "Professor John Todd | The Academy of Medical Sciences". acmedsci.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 11 July 2019. Retrieved 11 July 2019.
10. "Professor John Todd - Networks of evidence and expertise for public policy". www.csap.cam.ac.uk. Retrieved 11 July 2019.
11. "John Todd | Royal Society". royalsociety.org. Retrieved 11 July 2019.
12. "David Rumbough Award Recipients" (PDF). JDRF. 21 March 2018. Retrieved 11 July 2019.
13. "Press Release – Helmholtz Zentrum München". www.helmholtz-muenchen.de. Retrieved 11 July 2019.
14. "Oxford medical researchers win prestigious national awards". NIHR Oxford Biomedical Research Centre. 23 February 2018. Retrieved 1 March 2022.

External links

• JDRF/WT Diabetes and Inflammation Laboratory
• Cambridge BioResource
• Profile at the Cambridge Institute for Medical Research