Martin Raff

Martin Raff is a distinguished biologist and a member of the Royal Society.

During a highly distinguished career, Prof. Raff has been at the cutting-edge of biological research. Born and educated in Montreal he graduated from McGill University with BSc and MD degrees before undertaking tenures in medicine at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Montreal and in neurology at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. He did postdoctoral training in immunology at the National Institute for Medical Research in London, before moving to University College London, where he has been a Professor of Biology since 1979 and emeritus since 2002. He is currently at the Medical Research Council Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology and in the Biology Department at University College London. His research inetersts are primarliy centered around immunology, cell biology, and developmental neurobiology. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society, the Academy of Medical Sciences, and the Academia Europaea, a foreign member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences. He was president of the British Society of Cell Biology from 1991 to 1995 and chairman of the UK Life Sciences Committee from 1998-2001.

Martin Raff joined the Champalimaud Foundation’s Scientific Committee in 2008.