Caroline S. Hill

Caroline Hill
Hill in 2017
Born
Caroline Susan Hill

(1961-10-21) 21 October 1961 (age 62)
NationalityBritish
EducationNorth London Collegiate School
Alma materUniversity of Cambridge (BA, PhD)
SpousePeter Bradshaw
AwardsEMBO Member (2002)[1]
Member of the Academia Europaea (2013)
Fellow of the European Academy of Cancer Sciences (2015)
Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences (2019)
Scientific career
FieldsDevelopmental biology[2]
Cancer biology[2]
Signal transduction[2]
InstitutionsFrancis Crick Institute
ThesisStructural studies of sea urchin sperm chromatin (1988)
Doctoral advisorJean Thomas
Websitewww.crick.ac.uk/research/a-z-researchers/researchers-d-j/caroline-hill

Caroline Susan Hill FMedSci (born 21 October 1961) is a group leader and head of the Developmental Signalling Laboratory at the Francis Crick Institute.[3][4][5][2]

Education

Hill was educated at North London Collegiate School and graduated from the University of Cambridge with a first in Natural Sciences in 1984.[citation needed] She was an undergraduate at Trinity Hall, Cambridge and then did postgraduate research at Murray Edwards College, Cambridge, then known as New Hall, and was awarded a PhD in 1989[6] for research supervised by Jean Thomas.[7]

Career and research

Hill moved to the Cancer Research UK (CRUK)[8] London Research Institute (now part of the Francis Crick Institute) in 1998, to head up the Developmental Signalling Laboratory.[9] In November 2016, she was interviewed on the BBC World Service, along with the Crick's chief executive Paul Nurse about the future of biomedical research.[10]

Awards and honours

Hill was elected a member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) in 2002[1] and a Member of the Academia Europaea in 2013.[11] In 2015, she was elected a Fellow of the European Academy of Cancer Sciences.[12] In 2019, she was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences.[13]

References

  1. ^ a b "Find people in the EMBO Communities". people.embo.org. Retrieved 27 May 2018.
  2. ^ a b c d Caroline S. Hill publications indexed by Google Scholar
  3. ^ "Caroline Hill | The Francis Crick Institute". Crick.ac.uk. Retrieved 24 July 2017.
  4. ^ Caroline S. Hill publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
  5. ^ Caroline S. Hill publications from Europe PubMed Central
  6. ^ Hill, Caroline Susan (1988). Structural studies of sea urchin sperm chromatin (PhD thesis). University of Cambridge. OCLC 53497646. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.305554.
  7. ^ Schmierer, Bernhard; Hill, Caroline S. (2007). "TGFβ–SMAD signal transduction: molecular specificity and functional flexibility". Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology. 8 (12): 970–982. doi:10.1038/nrm2297. ISSN 1471-0072. PMID 18000526. S2CID 131895. Closed access icon
  8. ^ "Dr Caroline Hill". Cancer Research UK. December 2015. Retrieved 24 July 2017.
  9. ^ Nicola Davis. "Meet the researchers at London's £700m altar to biomedical science | Science". The Guardian. Retrieved 24 July 2017.
  10. ^ "BBC World Service at the Crick – The Francis Crick Institute". Crick.ac.uk. Retrieved 27 May 2018.
  11. ^ Hoffmann, Ilire Hasani, Robert. "Academy of Europe: Hill Caroline". Ae-info.org. Retrieved 27 May 2018.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  12. ^ "Fellows- European Academy of Cancer Sciences". Europeancanceracademy.eu. Retrieved 27 May 2018.
  13. ^ "Fellows- Academy Of Medical Sciences". acmedsci.ac.uk. Retrieved 8 May 2019.[permanent dead link]
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