Martin Raff

Email: m.raff@ucl.ac.uk

1959 - BSc McGill University
1963 - MD McGill University
1963 - Intern and Assistant Resident in Medicine, Royal Victoria Hospital, Montreal
1965 - Resident in Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston
1969 - Postdoctoral Fellow in Immunology, National Institute for Medical Research, Mill Hill, London
1971 - MRC Developmental Neurobiology Programme, Biology Department, University College London
1979 - Professor of Biology, Biology Department, University College London
1993 - Scientist, MRC Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology, University College London
2002 - Emeritus Professor, MRC Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology , UCL

I retired from active science in 2002, but, thanks to the kindness of my colleagues, I still have an office at the LMCB.

Current Scientific Advisory Boards

Skirball Institute (chairman), NYU

Board of Directors, Company of Biologists, UK

Ellison Medical Foundation, New York

Gulbenkian Institute of Science, Lisbon

Medical Research Council Clinical Sciences Centre, London

Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research

Myelin Repair Foundation, California

Rita Levi-Montalcini European Brain Research Institute, Rome

Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative, New York

Glaucoma Foundation Catalyst For Cure, San Francisco

Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Oxford

Salpêtriêre Neurosciences Research Centre, Paris

Champalimaud Foundation, Lisbon

Autism Speaks, New York

Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Oxford

Most Recent Publications

Raff, M. (2003) Adult stem cell plasticity: fact or artifact? Annu. Rev. Cell Dev. Biol . 19, 1-22.

Cayouette, M. Barres, B.A., and Raff, M. (2003) Importance of intrinsic mechanisms in cell-fate choice in the rat retina. Neuron 40: 897-904.

Kondo, T. and Raff, M. (2004) A role for Noggin in the development of oligodendrocyte precursor cells. Dev. Biol. 267: 242-251.

Billon, N., Terrinoni, A., Jolicoeur, C., McCarthy, A., Richardson, W.D., Melino, G. and Raff, M. (2004) Roles for p53 and p73 during oligodendrocyte development. Development 131:1211-1220.

Kondo, T. and Raff, M. (2004) Chromatin remodelling and histone modification in the conversion of oligodsendrocyte precursors to neural stem cells. Genes Dev. 18: 2963-2972.

Raff, M. (2006) Martin Raff. In The History of Neuroscience in Autobiography, Volume 5 (ed. Larry Squire), pp 505-548, Society for Neuroscience, Elsevier Academic Press, Burlington, MA.

Raff, M. (2006) The mystery of intracellular developmental programmes and timers. Biochem. Soc. Transactions ; 34:663-70 .

Raff, M. (2007) Intracellular developmental timers. Cold Spring Harb Symp Quant Biol. 72: 431-435.