Caroline S. 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]

Caroline Hill
Hill in 2017
Born
Caroline Susan Hill

(1961-10-21) 21 October 1961
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

Education

Hill was educated at North London Collegiate School and graduated from the University of Cambridge with a first in Natural Sciences in 1984. 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. "Find people in the EMBO Communities". people.embo.org. Retrieved 27 May 2018.
  2. 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
  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.
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