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
Alma mater
Awards
Websitehttps://www.rdm.ox.ac.uk/people/alain-townsend Edit this on Wikidata
Academic career
FieldsImmunology Edit this on Wikidata
Institutions
ThesisRecognition by influenza virus specific cytotoxic T cell clones
Doctoral advisorBrigitte 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

References
  1. "Prof Alain R Townsend FRS FRCP - Radcliffe Department of Medicine, University of Oxford".
  2. "Gairdner Foundation - Alain R.M. Townsend".
  3. Unanue, Emil R (15 February 2013). "Brigitte Askonas 1923–2013". Nature Immunology. 14 (3): 191. Bibcode:2013Natur.494...37O. doi:10.1038/ni.2553.
  4. "William B. Coley Award". Cancer Research Institute. Retrieved 12 February 2018.
  5. "Alain Townsend - Biography". royal Society. Retrieved 14 January 2017.
  6. Louis-Jeantet Prize


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