Martin Raff


Martin Charles Raff is a Canadian/British biologist and researcher who is an Emeritus Professor at the MRC Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology at University College London. His research has been in immunology, cell biology, and developmental neurobiology.
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Early life

Raff was born and educated in Montreal, where he obtained his Bachelor of Science degree in 1959 and an M.D.C.M. in 1963, both from McGill University.

Career

Raff was an intern and assistant resident in medicine at the Royal Victoria Hospital, Montreal and a resident in neurology at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. He did postdoctoral research in immunology with Avrion Mitchison at the National Institute for Medical Research in Mill Hill, London, after which he moved to University College London, where he has been since 1971. He served as president of the British Society of Cell Biology. He retired from active science in 2002, but he continued to serve on various scientific advisory boards in Europe and America until 2018. After his first retirement, when his grandson was diagnosed with autism, he became interested in the neurobiological basis of autism. He is co-author of two widely used cell biology textbooks: Molecular Biology of the Cell and Essential Cell Biology.

Awards and honours

Raff has received the following awards for his research:

Personal life

Raff's son is also a scientist.